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Recent works have shown that collective single photon spontaneous emission from an ensemble of $N$ resonant two-level atoms is a rich field of study. Superradiance describes emission from a completely symmetric state of $N$ atoms, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Nicola Piovella , Stefano Olivares

Photon emission is the hallmark of light-matter interaction and the foundation of photonic quantum science, enabling advanced sources for quantum communication and computing. Although single-emitter radiation can be tailored by the photonic…

The collective behavior of ensembles of atoms has been studied in-depth since the seminal paper of Dicke [R. H. Dicke, Phys. Rev. 93, 99 (1954)], where he demonstrated that a group of emitters in collective states is able to radiate with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 M. -O. Pleinert , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

When quantum emitters couple indistinguishably to light, they can synchronize into a collective light matter system with radiative properties profoundly different from those of independent particles. To date, the resulting collective…

Ordered atomic arrays trapped in the vicinity of nanoscale waveguides offer original light-matter interfaces, with applications to quantum information and quantum non-linear optics. Here, we study the decay dynamics of a single collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 V. A. Pivovarov , L. V. Gerasimov , J. Berroir , T. Ray , J. Laurat , A. Urvoy , D. V. Kupriyanov

Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter, such as an excited atom, is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics (QED), typically associated with exponential decay to the ground state accompanied by irreversible photon emission. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefano Longhi

We study the cooperative optical coupling between regularly spaced atoms in a one-dimensional waveguide using decompositions to subradiant and superradiant collective excitation eigenmodes, direct numerical solutions, and analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Janne Ruostekoski , Juha Javanainen

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…

When multiple quantum emitters couple to a common electromagnetic environment, interference in their collective radiative dynamics gives rise to superradiance and subradiance. In regimes where coherent interactions and collective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-13 Botao Du , Qihao Guo , Ruichao Ma

Atoms interact with each other through the electromagnetic field, creating collective states that can radiate faster or slower than a single atom, i.e. super- and sub-radiance. The generation and control of such states by engineering the…

We investigate the emergence of cooperative radiation phenomena in ensembles of two-level atoms coupled to a lossy resonant cavity beyond the Markovian and mean-field approximations. By deriving a complete analytical solution for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Ignacio González , Ángel Rivas

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

Future scalable photonic quantum information processing relies on the ability of integrating multiple interacting quantum emitters into a single chip. Quantum dots provide ideal on-chip quantum light sources. However, achieving quantum…

We investigate superradiance and subradiance of indistinguishable atoms with quantized motional states, starting with an initial total state that factorizes over the internal and external degrees of freedom of the atoms. Due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 F. Damanet , D. Braun , J. Martin

In a $\Lambda$ system with two nearly degenerate ground states and one excited state in an atom or quantum dot, spontaneous radiative decay can lead to a range of phenomena, including electron-photon entanglement, spontaneously generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sophia E. Economou , Ren-Bao Liu , L. J. Sham , D. G. Steel

Superradiance is the archetypical collective phenomenon where radiation is amplified by the coherence of emitters. It plays a prominent role in optics, where it enables the design of lasers with substantially reduced linewidths, quantum…

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

An individual excited two level system decays to its ground state by emitting a single photon in a process known as spontaneous emission. In accordance with quantum theory the probability of detecting the emitted photon decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-09 J. A. Mlynek , A. A. Abdumalikov , C. Eichler , A. Wallraff

Unravelling superradiance, also known as superfluorescence, relies on an ensemble of phase-matched dipole oscillators and the suppression of inhomogeneous broadening. Here we report on a novel superradiance platform that combines an optical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Shoichi Okaba , Deshui Yu , Luca Vincetti , Fetah Benabid , Hidetoshi Katori

Creation and manipulation of non-classical states of light is rapidly becoming the focus of modern attosecond science. Here, we demonstrate numerically how interaction with such states can trigger the emergence of a many-body system with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Nikolai D. Klimkin , Misha Ivanov