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We study the non-Markovian dynamics of a two-level giant atom interacting with a one-dimensional semi-infinite waveguide through multiple coupling points, where a perfect mirror is located at the endpoint of the waveguide. The system enters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Z. Y. Li , H. Z. Shen

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized modes embedded in the spectrum of extended states, typically stabilized by symmetry or interference. While extensively studied in single-particle and linear systems, the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Walter Rieck , Anton Frisk Kockum , Guangze Chen

We investigate the procedure of Schmidt modes extraction in systems with continuous variables. An algorithm based on singular value matrix decomposition is applied to the study of entanglement in an "atom-photon" system with spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Bogdanov , Yu. I. Bogdanov , K. A. Valiev

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

We study a system made up of one or two two-level quantum emitters, coupled to a single transverse mode of a closed waveguide, in which photon wavenumbers and frequencies are discretized, and characterize the stable states in which one…

We study the stability of bound antiprotons in close proximity to the atomic nucleus. Using experimental data from X-ray spectroscopy measurements of antiprotonic atom transitions, we tune a minimal theoretical framework and estimate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Fredrik Parnefjord Gustafsson , Daniel Pęcak , Tomasz Sowiński

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics platforms have emerged as promising candidates for exploring and implementing non-Markovian quantum phenomena. In this work, we investigate the formation and dynamics of superpositions of bound states in a…

Photon emission and absorption by an individual qubit are essential elements for the quantum manipulation of light. Here we demonstrate the controllability of spontaneous emission of a qubit in various electromagnetic environments. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Wai-Keong Mok , Jia-Bin You , Wenzu Zhang , Wan-Li Yang , Ching Eng Png

We show here that the photonic states emitted by ensembles of multilevel atoms via a superradiance process exhibit entanglement in the modal (frequency) degree of freedom, making this collective emission process a favorable candidate for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Amir Sivan , Meir Orenstein

We theoretically study a system composed by a waveguide and a moving quantum emitter in the single excitation subspace, treating the emitter motional degree of freedom quantum mechanically. We first characterize single-photon scattering off…

As one of the central topics in quantum optics, collective spontaneous emission such as superradiance has been realized in a variety of systems. This work proposes an innovative scheme to coherently control collective emission rates via a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Lei Qiao , Jiangbin Gong

We theoretically investigate the quantum scattering of a single-photon pulse interacting with an ensemble of $\Lambda$-type three-level atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. With an effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Guo-Zhu Song , Ewan Munro , Wei Nie , Fu-Guo Deng , Guo-Jian Yang , Leong-Chuan Kwek

The interaction of an ensemble of atoms with common vacuum modes may lead to an enhanced emission into these modes. This phenomenon, known as superradiance, highlights the coherent nature of spontaneous emission, resulting in macroscopic…

We report ground-state quantum beats in spontaneous emission from a continuously driven atomic ensemble. Beats are visible only in an intensity autocorrelation and evidence spontaneously generated coherence in radiative decay. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 D. G. Norris , L. A. Orozco , P. Barberis-Blostein , H. J. Carmichael

Quantum optics with giant emitters has shown a new route for the observation and manipulation of non-Markovian properties in waveguide-QED. In this paper we extend the theory of giant atoms, hitherto restricted to the perturbative…

Giant atoms, which couple to a waveguide through multiple spatially separated connection points beyond the dipole approximation, provide a versatile route for quantum information processing based on interference-induced bound states in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Ji Qi , Xiaojun Zhang , Honngwei Yu , Zhihai Wang

Collective decays of multiply-excited atoms become subradiant and bound in space when they are strongly coupled to the guided modes in an atom-waveguide interface. In this interface, we analyze their average density-density and modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 H. H. Jen

We provide the first classification of three-photon eigenstates in a finite periodic array of two-level atoms coupled to a waveguide. We focus on the strongly subwavelength limit and show the hierarchical structure of the eigenstates in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Janet Zhong , Alexander N. Poddubny

Atoms coupled to the same environment interfere with each other to yield super- or sub-radiance. Specifically, atoms in subradiant states are promising candidates for long-lifetime qubits and quantum memory because of the immunity to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yuan liu , Linhan Lin , Hong-Bo Sun

Systems consisting of cold atoms trapped near photonic crystal waveguides have recently emerged as an exciting platform for quantum atom-light interfaces. Such a system enables realization of tunable long-range interactions between internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David Z. Li , Marco T. Manzoni , Darrick E. Chang