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The transversely confined propagating modes of an optical fiber mediate virtually infinite range energy exchanges among atoms placed within their field, which adds to the inherent free space dipole-dipole coupling. Typically, the single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Laurin Ostermann , Clement Meignant , Claudiu Genes , Helmut Ritsch

Based on a consistent quantum microscopic approach, we investigate the peculiarities of collective polyatomic effects in atomic ensembles placed in a waveguide, caused by the presence of evanescent modes of electromagnetic field. We analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 A. S. Kuraptsev , I. M. Sokolov

We present a formalism for studying the influence of dispersive and absorbing dielectric bodies on a radiating atom in the framework of quantization of the phenomenological Maxwell equations for given complex permittivities of the bodies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Scheel , Ludwig Knoell , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

On the basis of general theoretical results developed previously in [I. M. Sokolov et al., J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 112, 246 (2011)], we analyze spontaneous decay of a single atom inside cold atomic clouds under conditions when the averaged…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 A. S. Kuraptsev , I. M. Sokolov

Spontaneous decay process of an excited atom placed inside or outside (near the surface) a carbon nanotube is analyzed. Calculations have been performed for various achiral nanotubes. The effect of the nanotube surface has been demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 I. V. Bondarev , G. Ya. Slepyan , S. A. Maksimenko

Spontaneous decay of an excited atom near a dispersing and absorbing microsphere of given complex permittivity that satisfies the Kramers-Kronig relations is studied, with special emphasis on a Drude-Lorentz permittivity. Both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 Ho Trung Dung , Ludwig Knöll , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

Atomic arrays can exhibit collective light emission when the transition wavelength exceeds their lattice spacing. Subradiant states take advantage of this phenomenon to drastically reduce their overall decay rate, allowing for long-lived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Nik O. Gjonbalaj , Stefan Ostermann , Susanne F. Yelin

We investigate the spontaneous emission of a two-level system coupled to a photonic waveguide, showing that dynamical dephasing in the photon modes profoundly alters the decay law. In the absence of dephasing, the emitter displays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Stefano Longhi

The local field correction to the spontanous dacay rate of an impurity source atom imbedded in a disordered dielectric is calculated to second order in the dielectric density. The result is found to differ from predictions associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hao Fu , P. R. Berman

Quantum mechanical treatment of light inside dielectric media is important to understand the behavior of an optical system. In this paper, a two-level atom embedded in a rectangular waveguide surrounded by a perfect electric conductor is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Moochan B. Kim , Georgios Veronis , Tae-Woo Lee , Hwang Lee , Jonathan P. Dowling

Given a quantum state at some instant of time t, the underlying system Hamiltonian can not only predict how the state will evolve, but also the history of the state prior to t. Thereby, in order to have a directed motion, like in a diode,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-21 Jonas Larson

The spontaneous decay of an excited atom by photon emission is one of the most common and elementary physical process present in nature and in laboratories. The decay is random in time with constant probability density, as it can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Marcello Baldo

One of the paradigms of a small quantum system in a dissipative environment is the decay of an excited atom undergoing spontaneous photon emission into the fluctuating quantum electrodynamic vacuum. Recent experiments have demonstrated that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-30 Ludwig Krinner , Michael Stewart , Arturo Pazmino , Joonhyuk Kwon , Dominik Schneble

We study spontaneous radiative decay of translational levels of an atom in the vicinity of a semi-infinite dielectric. We systematically derive the microscopic dynamical equations for the spontaneous decay process. We calculate analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fam Le Kien , K. Hakuta

We study the dynamics of a single excitation coherently shared amongst an ensemble of atoms and coupled to a one-dimensional wave guide. The coupling between the matter and the light field gives rise to collective phenomena such as…

Implementations of solid state quantum optics provide us with devices where qubits are placed at fixed positions in photonic or plasmonic one dimensional waveguides. We show that solely by controlling the position of the qubits and with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 A. Gonzalez-Tudela , D. Porras

The spontaneous emission rate of a radiating atom reaches its time-independent equilibrium value after an initial transient regime. In this paper we consider the associated relaxation effects of the spontaneous decay rate of atoms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Martijn Wubs , L. G. Suttorp

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of a two-atom system which couples to a quasi-one dimensional waveguide with rectangle cross section. The waveguide supports different TM and TE modes and the former ones play as environment by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yang Xue , Zhihai Wang

The decay of an excited atom in the presence of a medium that both scatters and absorbs radiation is studied with the help of a quantum-electrodynamical model. The medium is represented by a half space filled with a randomly distributed set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 L. G. Suttorp , A. J. van Wonderen

The spontaneous decay of an excited state of an emitter placed in the vicinity of a metallic single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) was examined theoretically. The emitter-SWNT coupling strongly depends on the position of the emitter relative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 A. M. Nemilentsau , G. Ya. Slepyan , S. A. Maksimenko , A. Lakhtakia , S. V. Rotkin