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Photonic state engineering in waveguide QED is typically based on local light-matter interactions. This limits its control over the spatial structure of bound photonic states. Here, we demonstrate a distinct mechanism arising from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Mingzhu Weng , Gang Wang , Zhihai Wang

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

Cavity materials are a frontier to investigate the role of light-matter interactions on the properties of electronic phases of matter. In this work, we raise a fundamental question: can non-local interactions mediated by cavity photons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-21 Daniel Shaffer , Martin Claassen , Ajit Srivastava , Luiz H. Santos

We propose a novel quantum electrodynamics (QED) platform where quantum emitters interact with a Hofstadter-ladder waveguide. We demonstrate several intriguing phenomena stemming from the exotic dispersion relation and vacuum mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Xin Wang , Zhao-Min Gao , Jia-Qi Li , Huai-Bing Zhu , Hong-Rong Li

Understanding physical properties of quantum emitters strongly interacting with quantized electromagnetic modes is one of the primary goals in the emergent field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED). When the light-matter coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Yuto Ashida , Takeru Yokota , Atac Imamoglu , Eugene Demler

A striking feature of cavity quantum electrodynamics is the existence of atom-photon bound states, which typically form when the coupling between the atom and its environment are strong enough that after de-excitation the atom can ``grab''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Savannah Garmon , Gonzalo Ordonez , Kenichi Noba

We analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a system formed by two chains of identical emitters coupled to a waveguide, whose guided modes induce all-to-all excitation hopping. We find that, in the single excitation limit, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ciaran McDonnell , Beatriz Olmos

We investigate quantum emitters (QEs) interacting with a photonic structured bath made of bilayer square lattices, where the resonance anti-crossing between the energy bands opens a symmetric middle energy gap. Due to the intrinsic chiral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Xing-Liang Dong , Peng-Bo Li , Jia-Qiang Chen , Fu-Li Li , Franco Nori

Over the last two decades, advances in fabrication have led to significant progress in creating patterned heterostructures that support either carriers, such as electrons or holes, with specific band structure or electromagnetic waves with…

We investigate coherent single-photon transport in a waveguide-QED structure containing two giant atoms. The unified analytical expressions of the single-photon scattering amplitudes applicable for different topological configurations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-17 S. L. Feng , W. Z. Jia

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) lattices have helped to understand key concepts of topological insulators. In this paper, we study the transmission properties of $pn$ junctions of bearded SSH lattices forming a bipartite structure. From a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Yonatan Betancur-Ocampo , Guillermo Monsivais

In this paper, we study the interaction between atom and the finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We find that when the finite SSH model in the trivial phase, it can be viewed as the atom coupling with the waveguide with the finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Da-Wei Wang , Chengsong Zhao , Junya Yang , Ye-Ting Yan , Ling Zhou

The Hamiltonian for the one-dimensional SSH chain is one of the simplest Hamiltonians that supports topological states. This work considers between one and three finite SSH chains with open boundary conditions that either share a lattice…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 C. I. Kvande , D. B. Hill , D. Blume

Controlling the topological properties of quantum matter is a major goal of condensed matter physics. A major effort in this direction has been devoted to using classical light in the form of Floquet drives to manipulate and induce states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Olesia Dmytruk , Marco Schirò

We investigate a Lieb lattice of quantum emitters coupled to a two-dimensional waveguide network and demonstrate that this system supports an energetically isolated flat band, enabling localization despite the presence of long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Matija Tečer , Giuseppe Calajó , Marco Di Liberto

Coherent quantum optics, where the interaction of a photon with an emitter does not scramble phase coherence, lies at the heart of many quantum optical effects and emerging technologies. Solid-state emitters coupled to nanophotonic…

We investigate the coherent single photon scattering process in a topological waveguide coupled with a driven $\Lambda$ system. We derive an analytical expression for transmittance by using the scattering formalism for three different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Gunjan Yadav , Madan Mohan Mahana , Tarak Nath Dey

Working in the context of the Su-Schreiffer-Heeger (SSH) model, the effect of topological transitions on the structure and properties of bulk position-space wavefunctions is studied for a particle undergoing a quantum walk in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 David S. Simon , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

We propose an efficient light-matter interface at optical frequencies between a single photon and a superconducting qubit. The desired interface is based on a hybrid architecture composed of an organic molecule embedded inside an optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Sumanta Das , Vincent E. Elfving , Sanli Faez , Anders S. Sørensen

The one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model is a prototype model in the field of topological condensed matter physics, and the existence and characteristics of its topological edge states are crucial for revealing the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Weibo Xu