Doublon bound states in the continuum through giant atoms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18212v1
• Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:02:13 GMT
• Title: Doublon bound states in the continuum through giant atoms
• Authors: Walter Rieck, Anton Frisk Kockum, Guangze Chen,
• Abstract summary: Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized modes embedded in the spectrum of extended states.<n>We show that giant atoms, quantum emitters coupled nonlocally to structured waveguides, can host robust doublon BICs.<n>Our results reveal an interference-based mechanism for stabilizing many-body localization in open quantum systems.
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• Abstract: Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are spatially localized modes embedded in the spectrum of extended states, typically stabilized by symmetry or interference. While extensively studied in single-particle and linear systems, the many-body regime of BICs remains largely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate that giant atoms, quantum emitters coupled nonlocally to structured waveguides, can host robust doublon BICs, i.e., two-photon bound states stabilized by destructive interference and interactions. We first analyze a driven two-photon emission process and show how doublon BICs arise and mediate decoherence-free interaction between distant atoms. We then demonstrate that these many-body BICs also emerge under natural, undriven dynamics via a virtual two-photon emission process in three-level giant atoms. Our results reveal an interference-based mechanism for stabilizing many-body localization in open quantum systems, with potential applications in quantum simulation, non-ergodic dynamics, and protected quantum information processing.

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