Tunable directional emission and collective dissipation with quantum metasurfaces

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00485v2
• Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:29:16 GMT
• Title: Tunable directional emission and collective dissipation with quantum metasurfaces
• Authors: David Fern\'andez-Fern\'andez, Alejandro Gonz\'alez-Tudela
• Abstract summary: Subradiant excitations propagate through the atomic array with very long lifetimes. We demonstrate that one can harness these excitations to obtain tunable directional emission patterns. We also benchmark how these directional emission patterns translate into collective, anisotropic dissipative couplings.
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• Abstract: Subwavelength atomic arrays, recently labeled as quantum metamaterials, have emerged as an exciting platform for obtaining novel quantum optical phenomena. The strong interference effects in these systems generate subradiant excitations that propagate through the atomic array with very long lifetimes. Here, we demonstrate that one can harness these excitations to obtain tunable directional emission patterns and collective dissipative couplings when placing judiciously additional atoms nearby the atomic array. For doing that, we first characterize the optimal array geometry to obtain directional emission patterns. Then, we characterize the best atomic positions to couple efficiently to the subradiant metasurface excitations, and provide several improvement strategies based on entangled atomic clusters or bilayers. Afterwards, we also show how the directionality of the emission pattern can be controlled through the relative dipole orientation between the auxiliary atoms and the one of the array. Finally, we benchmark how these directional emission patterns translate into to collective, anisotropic dissipative couplings between the auxiliary atoms by studying the lifetime modification of atomic entangled states.

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