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Subwavelength atomic arrays are a leading platform for engineering light-matter interactions, enabling near-perfect single-photon mirrors and robust quantum memories based on long-lived dark spin waves. However, a comprehensive theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Yidan Wang , Oriol Rubies-Bigorda , Valentin Walther , Susanne F. Yelin

We develop a theoretical framework to describe the scattering of photons against a two-level quantum emitter with arbitrary correlated dephasing noise. This is particularly relevant to waveguide-QED setups with solid-state emitters, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Tomás Ramos , Juan José García-Ripoll

We study the dynamics of single-photon absorption by a single emitter coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide that simultaneously provides channels for spontaneous emission decay and a channel for the input photon. We have developed a…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-21 Yuntian Chen , Martijn Wubs , Jesper Mork , A. Femius Koenderink

We analyze coherent transport of photons, which propagate in a one-dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide (CRW) and are scattered by a controllable two-level system located inside the CRW. Our approach, which uses discrete coordinates,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Lan Zhou , Z. R. Gong , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

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 study the collective phenomenon in the scattering of a single-photon by one or two layers of two-level atoms. By modeling the photon dispersion with a two-dimensional (2D) coupled cavity array, we analytically derive the scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-23 D. Z. Xu , Yong Li , C. P. Sun , Peng Zhang

We study controllable single photon scattering in a one-dimensional waveguide coupling with an additional cavity by second order nonlinear materials in a non-cascading configuration, where the additional cavity is embedded with two-level…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Hongyu Lin , Xiaoqian Wang , Zhihai Yao , Dandan Zou

We study the dynamics of a single photon pulse travels through a linear atomic chain coupled to a one-dimensional (1D) single mode photonic waveguide. We derive a time-dependent dynamical theory for this collective many-body system which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Zeyang Liao , Xiaodong Zeng , Shi-Yao Zhu , M. Suhail Zubairy

Employing tight-binding approximation we derive a transfer matrix formalism for one-dimensional single photon transport through a composite scattering center, which consists of parallel connected resonator optical waveguides. By solving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Yu Jiang , M. Lozada-Cassou

We investigate the single-photon propagation in the one-dimensional waveguide coupled to $N$ two-level atoms. For a waveguide coupled to $N$ distant atoms, the transparency can be induced by coherent interaction at resonance for an $even$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Wei-Bin Yan , Heng Fan

Quantum optics with giant atoms has provided a new paradigm to study photon scatterings. In this work, we investigate the nontrivial single-photon scattering properties of giant atoms being an effective platform to realize nonreciprocal and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Yao-Tong Chen , Lei Du , Lingzhen Guo , Zhihai Wang , Yan Zhang , Yong Li , Jin-Hui Wu

The emission and absorption of single photons by single atomic particles is a fundamental limit of matter-light interaction, manifesting its quantum mechanical nature. At the same time, as a controlled process it is a key enabling tool for…

We study the dynamics of single-photon absorption by a single emitter coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide that simultaneously provides channels for spontaneous emission decay and a channel for the input photon. We have developed a…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-14 Yuntian Chen , Martijn Wubs , Jesper Mørk , A. Femius Koenderink

We study single-photon scattering via a giant $\Lambda$-type atom, where both atomic transitions are coupled with the modes of a single waveguide at two separated points. The giant-atom structure introduces phase-dependent interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Lei Du , Yong Li

Controllable single-photon routing plays an important role in quantum networks. We investigate single-photon scattering in two one-dimensional (1D) waveguides by a three-level emitter with a cascade configuration, which is a dipole coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Yike Luo , Ya Yang , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

Quantum emitters coupled to nanophotonic structures are an excellent platform for controllable single-photon scattering. The tunable light-matter interaction enables the construction of a single-photon switch -- a device that can route a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mateusz Duda , Nicholas J. Martin , Eve O. Mills , Luke R. Wilson , Pieter Kok

Scattering of light by matter has been studied extensively in the past. Yet, the most fundamental process, the scattering of a single photon by a single atom, is largely unexplored [1-3]. One prominent prediction of quantum optics is the…

While designing the energy-momentum relation of photons is key to many linear, non-linear, and quantum optical phenomena, a new set of light-matter properties may be realized by employing the topology of the photonic bath itself. In this…

Two interacting Rydberg atoms coupled to a waveguide realize a giant-atom platform that exhibits the controllable (phase-dependent) chirality where the direction of nonreciprocal photon scattering can be switched on demand, e.g., by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Yao-Tong Chen , Lei Du , Zhihai Wang , M. Artoni , G. C. La Rocca , Jin-Hui Wu

Quadratic light-matter interactions are nonlinear couplings such that quantum emitters interact with photonic or phononic modes exclusively via the exchange of excitation pairs. Implementable with atomic and solid-state systems, these…