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We report the experimental observation of superradiant emission emanating from an elongated dense ensemble of laser cooled two-level atoms, with a radial extent smaller than the transition wavelength. In the presence of a strong driving…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 G. Ferioli , A. Glicenstein , F. Robicheaux , R. T. Sutherland , A. Browaeys , I. Ferrier-Barbut

We present theoretical results for superradiance, i.e. the collective coherent decay of a radiating system, in semiconductor structures. An optically active region can become superradiant if a strong magnetic field is applied. Pumping of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Brandes , J. Inoue , A. Shimizu

We present several analytical approaches to the Dicke superradiance problem, which involves determining the time evolution of the density operator for an initially inverted ensemble of $N$ identical two-level systems undergoing collective…

We study cooperative single-photon spontaneous emission from N multilevel atoms for different atomic distributions in optical vector theory. Instead of the average approximation for interatomic distance or the continuum approximation (sums…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-22 Wei Feng , Yong Li , Shi-Yao Zhu

Dicke superradiance is essentially a case of correlated dissipation leading to the macroscopic quantum coherence. Superradiance for arrays of inverted emitters in free space requires interactions far beyond the nearest-neighbor, limiting…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Jun Ren , Shicheng Zhu , Z. D. Wang

In inverted atomic ensembles, photon-mediated interactions give rise to Dicke superradiance, a form of many-body decay that results in a rapid release of energy as a photon burst. While originally studied in pointlike ensembles, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Stuart J. Masson , Jacob P. Covey , Sebastian Will , Ana Asenjo-Garcia

We introduce kinetically constrained superradiance, a form of cooperative emission in which interactions imprint configuration-dependent energy shifts on optical transitions, splitting Dicke superradiance into multiple, frequency-resolved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Luis Fernando dos Prazeres , Hossein Hosseinabadi , Jamir Marino

Generalized with respect to the Stark interaction of atoms with a vacuum field of zero photon density, Dicke's model is used to describe the Raman superradiance of a localized ensemble of identical atoms in a coherent non-resonant light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 A. M. Basharov , A. I. Trubilko

Superradiance typically requires preparation of atoms in highly entangled multi-particle states, the so-called Dicke states. In this paper we discuss an alternative route where we prepare such states from initially uncorrelated atoms by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 R. Wiegner , S. Oppel , D. Bhatti , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

The superradiant behaviour of the Dicke model is examined using the Yudson representation. This is achieved by computing the time evolution of the mean photon current density and photon number. Extensions of this model including energy…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-19 Colin Rylands , Natan Andrei

Subwavelength arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles allow us to control the behaviour of light at the nanoscale. Here, we develop an eigenmode analysis, employing a coupled electromagnetic dipole formalism, which permits us to isolate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Álvaro Buendía , José Luis Pura , Vincenzo Giannini , José Antonio Sánchez Gil

Fully-excited two-level atoms separated by less than the transition wavelength cooperatively emit light in a short burst, a phenomenon called superradiance by R. Dicke in 1954. The burst is characterized by a maximum intensity scaling with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 M. Bojer , J. von Zanthier

The Dicke Hamiltonian describes the simplest quantum system with atoms interacting with photons: N two level atoms inside a perfectly reflecting cavity which allows only one electromagnetic mode. It has also been successfully employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 O. Casta~nos , E. Nahmad-Achar , R. Lopez-Peña , J. G. Hirsch

We present quantum-mechanical approach for collective spontaneous emission (superradiance) of emitters (as atoms) near metal nanoparticle, when frequencies of transitions of emitters coincide with frequency of localized plasmon resonance of…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-16 Igor Protsenko , Alexander Uskov

The Dicke superradiance from an optically thin nanocomposite slab represented by metal nanoparticles dispersed in a dielectric matrix is predicted and its theory is developed from first principles. It is shown that the superradiance signal…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-18 V. G. Bordo

Superradiance, first proposed by Dicke in 1954, is a highly efficient quantum light source that differs from conventional spontaneous emission. Unlike typical spontaneous emission, where intensity scales linearly with the number of electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jaewon Lee , Sung Hun Park , Jangwon Kim , Kyung Hun Rho , Hoyoung Lee , Soyeon Kim , Seungwoo Lee

We theoretically characterize the collective radiative behaviour of N classical emitters near an interface between different dielectrics that supports the transfer of surface plasmon modes into the far-field of electromagnetic radiation.…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-09 J. J. Choquette , Karl-Peter Marzlin , B. C. Sanders

Dicke superradiance is an example of emergence of macroscopic quantum coherence via correlated dissipation. Starting from an initially incoherent state, a collection of excited atoms synchronizes as they decay, generating a macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Stuart J Masson , Ana Asenjo-Garcia

Determining the peak photon emission time and rate for an ensemble of $N$ quantum systems undergoing collective superradiant decay typically requires tracking the time evolution of the density operator. Generally, the dimension of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Raphael Holzinger , Susanne F. Yelin

We solve Dicke superradiance with two or more competing collective decay channels of tunable rates using a symbolic quantum-trajectory construction. The method yields closed time-domain populations and observables as finite sums of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Raphael Holzinger , Nico S. Bassler , Julian Lyne , Susanne F. Yelin , Claudiu Genes