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We develop a new computational tool and framework for characterizing the scattering of photons by energy-nonconserving Hamiltonians into unidirectional (chiral) waveguides, for example, with coherent pulsed excitation. The temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Kevin A. Fischer , Rahul Trivedi , Vinay Ramasesh , Irfan Siddiqi , Jelena Vučković

We investigate the scattering processes of two photons in a one-dimensional waveguide coupled to two giant atoms. By adjusting the accumulated phase shifts between the coupling points, we are able to effectively manipulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Wenju Gu , Lei Chen , Zhen Yi , Sujing Liu , Gao-xiang Li

We investigate the single-photon scattering spectrum of a driven $\Lambda$-type giant atom system chirally coupled to a one-dimensional (1D) waveguide. By employing a real-space scattering approach, we obtain analytical solutions for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Yimei Wang , Jing Li , Lan Zhou , Jing Lu

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

Quantum emitters inside optical cavities can create not only fixed photon number states but also photon number wave packets, which are states with a finite photon number distribution that oscillates in time. These states emerge when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Luca Nimmesgern , Moritz Cygorek , Doris E. Reiter , Vollrath Martin Axt

We examine a quantum routing mechanism utilizing a giant-atom-like array coupled to two one-dimensional waveguides. The giant-atom-like array is formed by a one-dimensional array of three-level-systems. In the regime of strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexis R. Legón , Mario Miranda , P. A. Orellana

We propose a single-photon router using a single atom with an inversion center coupled to quantum multichannels made of coupled-resonator waveguides. We show that the spontaneous emission of the atom can direct single photons from one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Jing Lu , Lan Zhou , Le-man Kuang , Franco Nori

Previous work on imaging wave packet dynamics with x-ray scattering revealed that the scattering patterns deviate substantially from the notion of instantaneous momentum density of the wave packet. Here we show that scattering patterns can…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Akilesh Venkatesh , F. Robicheaux

The wave nature of matter remains one of the most striking aspects of quantum mechanics. Since its inception, a wealth of experiments has demonstrated the interference, diffraction or scattering of massive particles. More recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Joris Verstraten , Kunlun Dai , Maxime Dixmerias , Bruno Peaudecerf , Tim de Jongh , Tarik Yefsah

Quantum optics with giant atoms provides a new approach for implementing optical memory devices at the atomic scale. Here, we theoretically study the relaxation dynamics of a single driven three-level atom interacting with a one-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Yang ya , Sun ge , Li jing , Lu jing , Zhou lan

A particle initially in a pure state but interacting with some environment evolves into a discrete ensemble of pure states, the eigenstates of its reduced density operator, with ensemble probabilities given by the corresponding eigenvalues.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Arsam Najafian , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We investigate the single photon scattering in a phonon-photon hybrid system in the waveguide QED scheme. In our consideration, an artificial giant atom, which is dressed by the phonons in a surface acoustic wave resonator, interacts with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xinyu Li , Wei Zhao , Zhihai Wang

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

In this paper, we investigate the single-photon scattering and bound states in a one-dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide which couples to a single artificial giant atom with two or more coupling points. When the atom couples to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-01 Wei Zhao , Zhihai Wang

Quantum technologies hold great promise for revolutionizing photonic applications such as cryptography. Yet their implementation in real-world scenarios is held back, mostly due to sensitivity of quantum light to scattering. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Ohad Lib , Giora Hasson , Yaron Bromberg

We report on the efficient generation of single photons, making use of spontaneous Raman scattering in a single trapped ion. The photons are collected through in-vacuum high-NA objectives. Photon frequency, polarization and temporal shape…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Christoph Kurz , Jan Huwer , Michael Schug , Philipp Müller , Jürgen Eschner

We demonstrate the control of entanglement of a single photon between several spatial modes propagating through a strongly scattering medium. Measurement of the scattering matrix allows the wavefront of the photon to be shaped to compensate…

We investigate single-photon scattering in a waveguide-QED setup, where a giant molecule composed of two frequency-detuned giant atoms is coupled to two parallel waveguides via multiple connection points. The competition between coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Ze-Quan Zhang , Guang-Zheng Ye , Wei-Xin Chen , Yong Li , Huaizhi Wu

We develop a Hamiltonian formalism to study energy and position/momentum correlations between a single Stokes photon and a single material excitation that are created as a pair in the spontaneous Raman scattering process. Our approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Kai Shinbrough , Yanting Teng , Bin Fang , Virginia O. Lorenz , Offir Cohen

We investigate the single photon scattering and bound states in a coupled resonator waveguide (CRW) which couples to a topological giant atom (TGA) via two distant sites. Here, the TGA is constructed by a one dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Wei Zhao , Tian Tian , Zhihai Wang