Effects of retardation on many-body superradiance in chiral waveguide QED

Autor:	Windt, Bennet, Bello, Miguel, Malz, Daniel, Cirac, J. Ignacio
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Quantum Physics Physics - Optics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	We study the superradiant decay of a chain of atoms coupled to a chiral waveguide, focusing on the regime of non-negligible photon propagation time. Using an exact master equation description which accounts for delay effects, we obtain evidence to suggest that competition between collective decay and retardation leads to the emergence of an effective maximum number of atoms able to contribute to the superradiant dynamics, resulting in a plateau of the peak emission rate. To develop this analysis further, we investigate the inter-atomic correlations to find features consistent with the formation of individual superradiant domains. Moreover, we find that retardation can also result in persistent oscillatory atomic dynamics accompanied by a periodic sequence of emission bursts. Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03390 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv