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In a preceding paper we introduced a formalism to study the scattering of low intensity fields from a system of multi-level emitters embedded in a $3$D dielectric medium. Here we show how this photon-scattering relation can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumanta Das , Vincent E. Elfving , Florentin Reiter , Anders S. Sørensen

We consider a generic model for interacting waveguide QED systems, where photons in a coupled-cavity array localize around atomic impurities while simultaneously interacting through local Kerr nonlinearities. This scenario appears naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Adrian Paul Misselwitz , Jacquelin Luneau , Peter Rabl

Dissipative light-matter coupling plays a vital role in non-Hermitian physics, but it remains largely unexplored in waveguide QED systems. In this work, we find that by employing pseudo-Hermitian symmetry rather than anti-PT symmetry, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Xing-Liang Dong , Peng-Bo Li , Zongping Gong , Franco Nori

The exchange of virtual photons between quantum optical emitters in cavity QED or quantum nanophotonic setups induces interactions between them which can be harnessed for quantum information and simulation purposes. So far, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Cristian Tabares , Erez Zohar , Alejandro González-Tudela

In recent experiments on coupled quantum dot (QD) optical cavity systems a pronounced interaction between the dot and the cavity has been observed even for detunings of many cavity linewidths. This interaction has been attributed to an…

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a powerful framework for engineering quantum interactions, traditionally relying on periodic photonic arrays with continuous energy bands. Here, we investigate waveguide QED in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Florian Bönsel , Flore K. Kunst , Federico Roccati

Quantum electrodynamics (QED), a cornerstone framework that describes light-matter interactions rooted in Abelian symmetries, renders the harnessing of synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields as a fundamental yet uncharted frontier. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Qinan Huang , Bengy T. T. Wong , Zehai Pang , Xudong Zhang , Zeling Chen , Yi Yang

Multi-photon lasing has been realized in systems with strong nonlinear interactions between emitters and cavity modes, where single-photon processes are suppressed. Coherence between the internal states of a quantum emitter, or among…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Lavakumar Addepalli

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (WQED) provides a powerful platform for exploring quantum optical phenomena by enhancing atom-photon interactions through photon confinement in a waveguide. Here we investigate the photon-scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yanjin Yue , Rui-Yang Gong , Shengyong Li , Ze-Liang Xiang

Since its inception, research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has extended our understanding of light-matter interactions and our ability to utilize them. Thus far, all the work in this field has been focused on light interacting…

In this work we study numerically and analytically the interaction of two qubits in a one-dimensional waveguide, as mediated by the photons that propagate through the guide. We develop strategies to assert the Markovianity of the problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Guillermo Diaz-Camacho , Diego Porras , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanostructures in which a three dimensional potential trap produces an electronic quantum confinement, thus mimicking the behaviour of single atomic dipole-like transitions. However unlike atoms, QDs can…

Quasi-normal modes (QNMs) and coherent control of light-matter interactions (through synchronized multiple coherent incident waves) are profound and pervasive concepts in and beyond photonics, making accessible photonic manipulations with…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-26 Jingwei Wang , Pengxiang Wang , Chaofan Zhang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) has opened a new frontier in quantum optics, which enables the radiative coupling of distantly located emitters via the spatially extended waveguide mode. This coupling leads to modified emission…

Coherent photon-emitter interfaces offer a way to mediate efficient nonlinear photon-photon interactions, much needed for quantum information processing. Here we experimentally study the case of a two-level emitter, a quantum dot, coupled…

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) manipulates the coupling of light with matter, and allows for several emitters to couple coherently with one light mode. However, even in a many-body system, the light-matter coupling mechanism was so…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-10 Hideki Konishi , Kevin Roux , Victor Helson , Jean-Philippe Brantut

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) provide an essential link between light and matter in emerging fields such as light-harvesting, all-solid-state quantum communication, and quantum computing. QDs are excellent single-photon sources and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Mads Lykke Andersen , Søren Stobbe , Anders Søndberg Sørensen , Peter Lodahl

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

While engineering long-range light-matter interactions is the principal aim in waveguide-QED, ironically most of the building blocks rest on local short-range couplings, such as nearest-neighbor-coupled cavity arrays employed in canonical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 P. Goswami , J. Liu , C. A. González-Gutiérrez , A. Kamal

We study the coherent single-photon scattering in a one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a giant artificial molecule consisting of two coupled giant atoms. Since each giant atom couples to the waveguide via two coupling points, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Xian-Li Yin , Yu-Hong Liu , Jin-Feng Huang , Jie-Qiao Liao