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Mobility edges (MEs) are critical boundaries in disordered quantum systems that separate localized from extended states, significantly affecting transport properties and phase transitions. Although MEs are well-understood in single-photon…

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Spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter, such as an excited atom, is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics (QED), typically associated with exponential decay to the ground state accompanied by irreversible photon emission. This…

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We investigate the single-photon scattering spectra of a giant atom coupled to a one dimensional waveguide via multiple connection points or a continuous coupling region. Using a full quantum mechanical method, we obtain the general…

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Chiral interactions enable directional control of quantum light, providing new routes for nonreciprocal photon dynamics. While previous studies focused on single photon regimes, this work explores the non-Markovian multiphoton regime in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yue Chang

A numerical method of calculating the non-Markovian evolution of a driven atom radiating into a structured continuum is developed. The formal solution for the atomic reduced density matrix is written as a Markovian algorithm by introducing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. W. Jack , J. J. Hope

Behavior analogous to that of spontaneous emission in photonic band gap materials has been predicted for an atom-optical system consisting of an atom confined in a well of a state-dependent optical lattice that is coupled to free space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-06 Michael Stewart , Ludwig Krinner , Arturo Pazmiño , Dominik Schneble

Manipulating the dynamics of open quantum systems is a crucial requirement for large-scale quantum computers. Finding ways to overcome or extend decoherence times is a challenging task. Already at the level of a single two-level atom, its…

In waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems, atomic radiation emission is shaped by the photonic environment and collective atom interactions, offering promising applications in quantum technologies. In particular, atom-photon bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Stefano Longhi

Within the matrix product state framework, we study the non-Markovian feedback dynamics of a two-level system interacting with the electromagnetic field inside a semi-infinite waveguide where the excitation of an atom-photon bound state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Kisa Barkemeyer , Andreas Knorr , Alexander Carmele

We discuss a point model for the collective emission of light from N two-level atoms in a photonic bandgap material, each with an atomic resonant frequency near the edge of the gap. In the limit of a low initial occupation of the excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nipun Vats , Sajeev John

We introduce a picture to describe and intrepret waveguide-QED problems in the non-Markovian regime of long photonic retardation times resulting in delayed coherent feedback. The framework is based on an intuitive spatial decomposition of…

In this paper, we study both open-loop control and closed-loop measurement feedback control of non-Markovian quantum dynamics arising from the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. We use the widely studied cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haijin Ding , Nina H. Amini , John E. Gough , Guofeng Zhang

We define non-Markovian quantum dynamics as evolution in which the current state depends on all past states, and completely characterize its structure under the assumptions of complete positivity and non-signalling. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Serhii Kryhin , Vivishek Sudhir

While ideal lattice models have been widely used to study giant-atom systems, fabrication-induced defects inevitably introduce disorder in realistic platforms. Here, we study non-Markovian dynamics of a giant atom coupled to a discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Maohua Wang , Yan Zhang

We study the dynamics of a quantum emitter coupled to a two-dimensional photonic crystal featuring a finite bandwidth with sharp edges and a Van-Hove singularity. We study the effect of strong system-bath coupling and non-Markovianity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Matthieu Vanhoecke , Orazio Scarlatella , Marco Schirò

We analyze the dynamics of a set of two-level atoms coupled to the electromagnetic environment within a waveguide. This problem is often tackled by assuming a weak coupling between the atoms and the environment as well as the associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Carlo Cascio , Jad C. Halimeh , Ian P. McCulloch , Alessio Recati , Ines de Vega

We propose a methodical approach to controlling and enhancing deviations from exponential decay in quantum and optical systems by exploiting recent progress surrounding another subtle effect: the bound states in continuum, which have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Savannah Garmon , Kenichi Noba , Gonzalo Ordonez , Dvira Segal

We investigate the spontaneous emission of one atom placed near an oscillating reflecting plate. We consider the atom modeled as a two-level system, interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field in the vacuum state, in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Alessandro Ferreri , Michelangelo Domina , Lucia Rizzuto , Roberto Passante

By using the effective non-Markovian measure [H.P. Breuer, E.M. Laine, J. Piilo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401 (2009)], we investigate non-Markovian dynamics of a pair of two-level atoms (TLAs) system, each of which interacting with a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Li Jiang , Guo-Feng Zhang

Giant atoms -- quantum emitters that couple to light at multiple discrete points -- are emerging as a new paradigm in quantum optics thanks to their many promising properties, such as decoherence-free interaction. While most previous work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ariadna Soro , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Anton Frisk Kockum