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Subwavelength atomic arrays are a leading platform for engineering strong light-matter interactions, presenting exciting opportunities for quantum science. However, a full understanding of their multi-excitation dynamics remains a…

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Subwavelength atomic arrays offer a powerful platform for engineering cooperative light-matter interactions and enabling quantum metasurfaces. We demonstrate that a two-dimensional array of three-level atoms operating under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shiwen Sun , Yi-Xin Wang , Xiao Liu , Yan Zhang

We present a multipolar model of surface - lattice resonances (SLRs) in 2d arrays of spheres including the electric dipole, magnetic dipole, and electric quadrupole moments of the spheres. We identify SLRs of dipolar and multipolar…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-29 Sylvia D. Swiecicki , J. E. Sipe

Collective coherent scattering of laser light by an ensemble of polarizable point particles creates long range interactions, whose properties can be tailored by choice of injected laser powers, frequencies and polarizations. We use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan Ostermann , Matthias Sonnleitner , Helmut Ritsch

We consider the light scattering from a pair of point-like electrical dipoles. Whenever the polarizability of each dipole violates the optical theorem, the response of the pair (both in far-field and near-field) exhibits exact resonances as…

We consider quantum light-matter interfaces comprised of multiple layers of two-dimensional atomic arrays, whose lattice spacings exceed the wavelength of light. While the coupling of light to a single layer of such a ``superwavelength"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Roni Ben-Maimon , Yakov Solomons , Nir Davidson , Ofer Firstenberg , Ephraim Shahmoon

The coupling of atomic arrays and one-dimensional subwavelength waveguides gives rise to in- teresting photon transport properties, such as recent experimental demonstrations of large Bragg reflection and paves the way for a variety of…

Cooperative scattering in cold atoms has gained renewed interest, in particular in the context of single-photon superradiance, with the recent experimental observation of super-and subradiance in dilute atomic clouds. Numerical simulations…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 M Araújo , William Guerin , Robin Kaiser

A novel way to create efficient atom-light interfaces is to engineer collective atomic states that selectively radiate into a target optical mode by suppressing emission into undesired modes through destructive interference. While it is…

To achieve efficient light control at subwavelength dimensions, plasmonic and all-dielectric nanoparticles have been utilized both as a single element as well as in the arrays. Here we study 2D periodic nanoparticle arrays (metasurfaces)…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-04 Andrey B. Evlyukhin , Viktoriia E. Babicheva

In this paper we develop a microscopic analysis of the light scattering on a periodic two-level atomic array coupled to an optical nanofiber. We extend the scattering matrix approach for two-level system interaction with nanofiber…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 D. F. Kornovan , A. S. Sheremet , M. I. Petrov

When a cold atomic gas is illuminated by a quasi-resonant laser beam, light-induced dipole-dipole correlations make the scattering of light a cooperative process. Once a fluid description is adopted for the atoms, many scattering properties…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-23 N. Piovella , R. Bachelard , Ph. W. Courteille

A cloud of cold N two-level atoms driven by a resonant laser beam shows cooperative effects both in the scattered radiation field and in the radiation pressure force acting on the cloud center-of-mass. The induced dipoles synchronize and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Tom Bienaime , Romain Bachelard , Nicola Piovella , Robin Kaiser

We investigate how laser-driven, cooperative dipole-dipole interactions in weakly trapped atomic arrays give rise to self-organized configurations. Starting from an analytically tractable two-emitter system, we identify the possible…

Rayleigh scattering has shown powerful abilities to study electron resonances of nanomaterials regardless of the specific shapes. In analogy to Rayleigh scattering, here we demonstrate that edge optical scattering from two-dimensional (2D)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Huaiyi Ding , Yiyun Dong , Sijia Li , Nan Pan , Yi Luo , Xiaoping Wang

Excitons in a semiconductor monolayer form a collective resonance that can reflect resonant light with extraordinarily high efficiency. Here, we investigate the nonlinear optical properties of such atomistically thin mirrors and show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Valentin Walther , Lida Zhang , Susanne F. Yelin , Thomas Pohl

Inspired by recent advances in the manipulation of atoms trapped near 1D waveguides and pro- posals to use surface acoustic waves on piezoelectric substrates for the same purpose, we show the potential of two-dimensional platforms. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 F. Galve , R. Zambrini

We theoretically investigate the collective dipole-dipole interactions in atoms coupled to a nanophotonic microring resonator. The atoms can interact with each other through light-induced dipole-dipole interactions mediated by free space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Deepak A. Suresh , Xinchao Zhou , Chen-Lung Hung , F. Robicheaux

Enhancing the optical cross section is an enticing goal in light-matter interactions, due to its fundamental role in quantum and non-linear optics. Here, we show how dipolar interactions can suppress off-axis scattering in a two-dimensional…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Robert J. Bettles , Simon A. Gardiner , Charles S. Adams

Sub-wavelength arrays of atoms exhibit remarkable optical properties, analogous to those of phased array antennas, such as collimated directional emission or nearly perfect reflection of light near the collective resonance frequency. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-28 David Petrosyan , József Fortágh , Gershon Kurizki