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Delay-induced spontaneous dark state generation from two distant excited atoms

Quantum Physics 2024-06-14 v2

Abstract

We investigate the collective non-Markovian dynamics of two fully excited two-level atoms coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide in the presence of delay. We demonstrate that analogous to the well-known superfluorescence phenomena, where an inverted atomic ensemble synchronizes to enhance its emission, there is a `subfluorescence' effect that synchronizes the atoms into an entangled dark state depending on the interatomic separation. Our results are pertinent to long-distance quantum networks, presenting a mechanism for spontaneous entanglement generation between distant quantum emitters.

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@article{arxiv.2303.06559,
  title  = {Delay-induced spontaneous dark state generation from two distant excited atoms},
  author = {William Alvarez-Giron and Pablo Solano and Kanu Sinha and Pablo Barberis-Blostein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06559},
  year   = {2024}
}
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