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Spin-dependent, directional light-matter interactions form the basis of chiral quantum networks. In the solid state, quantum emitters commonly possess circularly polarised optical transitions with spin-dependent handedness. We demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-31 D. Hallett , A. P. Foster , D. M. Whittaker , M. S. Skolnick , L. R. Wilson

We design photonic crystal waveguides with efficient chiral light--matter interfaces that can be integrated with solid-state quantum emitters. By using glide-plane-symmetric waveguides, we show that chiral light-matter interaction can exist…

We present a brief overview of the transport of quantum light across a one-dimensional waveguide which is integrated with a periodic string of quantum-scale dipoles. We demonstrate a scheme to implement transparency by suitably tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Girish S. Agarwal , Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay

We study chiral and nonreciprocal single-photon scattering in a chiral-giant-molecule waveguide-QED system. Here, the giant molecule consists of two coupled giant atoms, which interact with two linear waveguides, forming a four-port quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Juan Zhou , Xian-Li Yin , Jie-Qiao Liao

Chiral quantum optics has become a burgeoning field due to its potential applications in quantum networks or quantum simulation of many-body physics. Current implementations are based on the interplay between local polarization and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Eduardo Sánchez-Burillo , Chao Wan , David Zueco , Alejandro González-Tudela

Chiroptical responses in atomic systems are usually weak, as they arise from the interference between electric- and much weaker magnetic-dipole transitions. We show that atoms arranged in chiral geometries can instead exhibit a strong…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Marcella L. Xavier , Felipe A. Pinheiro , Romain Bachelard

Atomic metasurfaces (AMs) provide a powerful nanophotonic platform for integrating topological effects into quantum many-body systems. In this Letter, we investigate the quantum optical and topological properties of a two-dimensional Kagome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yi-Xin Wang , Yan Zhang , Lei Du , Lingzhen Guo , Jin-Hui Wu

We demonstrate an efficient optical guiding technique for coupling cold atoms in the near field of a planar nanophotonic circuit, and realize large atom-photon coupling to a whispering-gallery mode in a microring resonator with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Xinchao Zhou , Hikaru Tamura , Tzu-Han Chang , Chen-Lung Hung

Giant atoms, which couple to a waveguide through multiple spatially separated connection points beyond the dipole approximation, provide a versatile route for quantum information processing based on interference-induced bound states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ji Qi , Xiaojun Zhang , Honngwei Yu , Zhihai Wang

On-chip chiral quantum light-matter interfaces, which support directional interactions, provide a promising platform for efficient spin-photon coupling, non-reciprocal photonic elements, and quantum logic architectures. We present full-wave…

We propose a setup which combines giant emitters (coupling to light at multiple points separated by wavelength distances) with nonlinear quantum optics and its correlated photons. In this setup, we reveal a mechanism for multiphoton chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Xin Wang , Jia-Qi Li , Zhihai Wang , Anton Frisk Kockum , Lei Du , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

Atoms coupled to optical fields confined in one and two spatial dimensions in solid state microstructures can experience very large light shifts if the driving frequencies are close to a resonance of the microstructures and an atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Horak , Peter Domokos , Helmut Ritsch

We present a combined classical and quantum electrodynamics description of the coupling between two circularly-polarized quantum emitters held above a metal surface supporting surface plasmons. Depending on their position and their natural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 C. A. Downing , J. C. López Carreño , F. P. Laussy , E. del Valle , A. I. Fernández-Domínguez

In three dimensions, dipole-dipole interactions which alter atomic level shifts and spontaneous decay rates only persist over distances comparable to the wavelength of the emitted light. In this paper we show that it is possible to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Nicholas Furtak-Wells , Benjamin Dawson , Thomas Mann , Gin Jose , Almut Beige

A chiral photonic interface is a quantum system that has different probabilities for emitting photons to the left and right. An on-chip compatible chiral interface is attractive for both fundamental studies of light-matter interactions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Carles R. i Carceller , Morten Kjaergaard , Anders S. Sørensen

Quantum effects, prevalent in the microscopic scale, generally elusive in macroscopic systems due to dissipation and decoherence. Quantum phenomena in large systems emerge only when particles are strongly correlated as in superconductors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Junki Kim , Daeho Yang , Seung-hoon Oh , Kyungwon An

The optical properties of sub-wavelength arrays of atoms or other quantum emitters have attracted significant interest recently. For example, the strong constructive or destructive interference of emitted light enables arrays to function as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 A. Asenjo-Garcia , H. J. Kimble , D. E. Chang

Chiral quantum networks provide a promising route for realising quantum information processing and quantum communication. Here, we describe how two distant quantum nodes of chiral quantum network become dynamically entangled by a photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Wai-Keong Mok , Davit Aghamalyan , Jia-Bin You , Leong-Chuan Kwek

Valleytronics and valley photonics exploit the valley degree of freedom to encode and manipulate information. Here we show that photonic valleys can be selectively addressed in quantum optics using a simple two-level emitter, provided it is…

Giant atoms that interact with real-space waveguides at multiple spatial points have attracted extensive attention due to their unique interference effects. Here we propose a feasible scheme for constructing giant atoms in a synthetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Lei Du , Yan Zhang , Jin-Hui Wu , A. F. Kockum , Yong Li