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The phenomenon of super-radiance in quantum optics predicted by Dicke 50 years ago and observed experimentally has its counterparts in many-body systems on the borderline between discrete spectrum and continuum. The interaction of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Vladimir Zelevinsky , Alexander Volya

Dicke superradiance is essentially a case of correlated dissipation leading to the macroscopic quantum coherence. Superradiance for arrays of inverted emitters in free space requires interactions far beyond the nearest-neighbor, limiting…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Jun Ren , Shicheng Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Dicke superradiance describes an ensemble of $N$ permutationally invariant two-level systems collectively emitting radiation with a peak radiated intensity scaling as $N^2$. Although individual Dicke states are typically entangled, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Nico S. Bassler

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…

An individual excited two level system decays to its ground state by emitting a single photon in a process known as spontaneous emission. In accordance with quantum theory the probability of detecting the emitted photon decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-09 J. A. Mlynek , A. A. Abdumalikov , C. Eichler , A. Wallraff

In recent years there have been significant advances in the study of many-body interactions between atoms and light confined to optical cavities. One model which has received widespread attention of late is the Dicke model, which under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Kevin Stitely , Andrus Giraldo , Bernd Krauskopf , Scott Parkins

Superradiance is one of the outstanding problems in quantum optics since Dicke introduced the concept of enhanced directional spontaneous emission by an ensemble of identical two-level atoms. The effect is based on correlated collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 S. Oppel , R. Wiegner , G. S. Agarwal , J. von Zanthier

Superradiance occurs when a collection of atoms exhibits cooperative, spontaneous emission of photons at a rate that exceeds that of its component parts. Here, we reveal a similar phenomenon in a hydrodynamic system consisting of a pair of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Valeri Frumkin , Konstantinos Papatryfonos , John W. M. Bush

Superradiance in an ensemble of atoms leads to the collective enhancement of radiation in a particular mode shared by the atoms in their spontaneous decay from an excited state. The quantum aspects of this phenomenon are highlighted when…

The Dicke model describes the collective behavior of a sub-wavelength--size ensemble of two-level atoms (i.e., spin-1/2) interacting identically with a single quantized radiation field of a cavity. Across a critical coupling strength it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Farokh Mivehvar

Superradiance, in which the collective behavior of emitters can generate enhanced radiative decay, was first predicted by a model, now known as the Dicke model, that contains a collection of two-level systems (the emitters) all interacting…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-05 Xuecheng Tao , John P. Philbin , Prineha Narang

Super- and subradiance are usually described in the framework of Dicke collective states, which is an ``atomic picture'' in which the electromagnetic field only provides an effective interaction between the atoms. Here, we discuss a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-09 S. Asselie , A. Cipris , W. Guerin

We investigate Dicke subradiance of distant quantum sources in free space, i.e., the spatial emission pattern of spontaneously radiating non-interacting multi-level atoms or multi-photon sources, prepared in totally antisymmetric states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Daniel Bhatti , Raimund Schneider , Steffen Oppel , Joachim von Zanthier

When atoms are coupled to a common electromagnetic environment, the exchange of photons through dipole-dipole interactions leads to the emergence of cooperative effects. As a particular example, superradiance arises from spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Hanzhen Ma , Oriol Rubies-Bigorda , Susanne F. Yelin

Superradiance is the archetypical collective phenomenon where radiation is amplified by the coherence of emitters. It plays a prominent role in optics, where it enables the design of lasers with substantially reduced linewidths, quantum…

We report the experimental observation of superradiant emission emanating from an elongated dense ensemble of laser cooled two-level atoms, with a radial extent smaller than the transition wavelength. In the presence of a strong driving…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 G. Ferioli , A. Glicenstein , F. Robicheaux , R. T. Sutherland , A. Browaeys , I. Ferrier-Barbut

Several physical systems can be treated as a scattering process, and, for these processes, a natural observed quantity arises: the ratio between the reflected and incident intensities, known as the reflection coefficient. This dissertation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-15 Bruno Arderucio

The superradiant phenomenon, usually described by the Dicke model, is a hallmark of strong light-matter interaction. We explore how matter-matter interactions influence this phenomenon by performing ground-state simulations of Dicke-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 João Pedro Mendonça , Krzysztof Jachymski , Yao Wang

Dicke superradiance is a collective phenomenon where the emission from ensembles of quantum emitters is coherently enhanced beyond the sum of each emitter's independent emission. Here, we propose a platform that exploits the delocalised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Daniel Eyles , Emmanuel Lassalle , Adam Stokes , Ahsan Nazir , Ramón Paniagua-Domínguez

The Dicke Hamiltonian describes the simplest quantum system with atoms interacting with photons: N two level atoms inside a perfectly reflecting cavity which allows only one electromagnetic mode. It has also been successfully employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 O. Casta~nos , E. Nahmad-Achar , R. Lopez-Peña , J. G. Hirsch