Superradiance with local phase-breaking effects
Superradiance with local phase-breaking effects
We study the superradiant evolution of a set of N two-level systems spontaneously radiating under the effect of phase-breaking mechanisms. We investigate the dynamics generated by non-radiative losses and pure dephasing, and their interplay with spontaneous emission. Our results show that in the parameter region relevant to many solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments, even with a dephasing rate much faster than the radiative lifetime of a single two-level system, a sub-optimal collective superfluorescent burst is still observable. We also apply our theory to the dilute excitation regime, often used to describe optical excitations in solid-state systems. In this regime, excitations can be described in terms of bright and dark bosonic quasiparticles. We show how the effect of dephasing and losses in this regime translates into inter-mode scattering rates and quasiparticle lifetimes.
Shammah, Nathan
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Lambert, Neill
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Nori, Franco
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De Liberato, Simone
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Shammah, Nathan
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Lambert, Neill
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Nori, Franco
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De Liberato, Simone
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Shammah, Nathan, Lambert, Neill, Nori, Franco and De Liberato, Simone
(2017)
Superradiance with local phase-breaking effects.
Physical Review A, 96, [023863].
(doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023863).
Abstract
We study the superradiant evolution of a set of N two-level systems spontaneously radiating under the effect of phase-breaking mechanisms. We investigate the dynamics generated by non-radiative losses and pure dephasing, and their interplay with spontaneous emission. Our results show that in the parameter region relevant to many solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments, even with a dephasing rate much faster than the radiative lifetime of a single two-level system, a sub-optimal collective superfluorescent burst is still observable. We also apply our theory to the dilute excitation regime, often used to describe optical excitations in solid-state systems. In this regime, excitations can be described in terms of bright and dark bosonic quasiparticles. We show how the effect of dephasing and losses in this regime translates into inter-mode scattering rates and quasiparticle lifetimes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 August 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 August 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413508
ISSN: 1050-2947
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