Characterizing superradiant dynamics in atomic arrays via a cumulant expansion approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11895v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:49:21 GMT
• Title: Characterizing superradiant dynamics in atomic arrays via a cumulant expansion approach
• Authors: Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Stefan Ostermann and Susanne F. Yelin
• Abstract summary: Ordered atomic arrays with subwavelength lattice spacing emit light collectively. For fully inverted atomic arrays, this results in an initial burst of radiation and a fast build up of coherences between the atoms at initial times. We benchmark the cumulant expansion approach and show that it correctly captures the cooperative dynamics resulting in superradiance.
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• Abstract: Ordered atomic arrays with subwavelength lattice spacing emit light collectively. For fully inverted atomic arrays, this results in an initial burst of radiation and a fast build up of coherences between the atoms at initial times. Based on a cumulant expansion of the equations of motion, we derive exact analytical expressions for the emission properties and numerically analyze the full many-body problem resulting in the collective decay process for unprecedented system sizes of up to a few hundred atoms. We benchmark the cumulant expansion approach and show that it correctly captures the cooperative dynamics resulting in superradiance. For fully inverted arrays, this allows us to extract the scaling of the superradiant peak with particle number. For partially excited arrays where no coherences are shared among atoms, we also determine the critical number of excitations required for the emergence of superradiance in one- and two-dimensional geometries. In addition, we study the robustness of superradiance in the case of non-unit filling and position disorder.

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