Green's function approach to interacting lattice polaritons and optical nonlinearities in subwavelength arrays of quantum emitters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10387v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:32:13 GMT
• Title: Green's function approach to interacting lattice polaritons and optical nonlinearities in subwavelength arrays of quantum emitters
• Authors: Simon Panyella Pedersen, Georg M. Bruun, Thomas Pohl,
• Abstract summary: Sub-wavelength arrays of quantum emitters offer an efficient free-space approach to coherent light-matter. We describe a diagrammatic Green's function approach that permits analytical investigations of nonlinear processes.
• Score: 0.08192907805418582
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Sub-wavelength arrays of quantum emitters offer an efficient free-space approach to coherent light-matter interfacing, using ultracold atoms or two-dimensional solid-state quantum materials. The combination of collectively suppressed photon-losses and emerging optical nonlinearities due to strong photon-coupling to mesoscopic numbers of emitters holds promise for generating nonclassical light and engineering effective interactions between freely propagating photons. While most studies have thus far relied on numerical simulations, we describe here a diagrammatic Green's function approach that permits analytical investigations of nonlinear processes. We illustrate the method by deriving a simple expression for the scattering matrix that describes photon-photon interactions in an extended two-dimensional array of quantum emitters, and reproduces the results of numerical simulations of coherently driven arrays. The approach yields intuitive insights into the nonlinear response of the system and offers a promising framework for a systematic development of a theory for interacting photons and many-body effects on collective radiance in two-dimensional arrays of quantum emitters.

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