Superradiant decay in non-Markovian Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22332v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:04:13 GMT
• Title: Superradiant decay in non-Markovian Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics
• Authors: Rosa Lucia Capurso, Giuseppe Calajó, Simone Montangero, Saverio Pascazio, Francesco V. Pepe, Maria Maffei, Giuseppe Magnifico, Paolo Facchi,
• Abstract summary: An array of initially excited emitters coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide exhibits superradiant decay under the Born-Markov approximation.<n>We find that the superradiant burst breaks into a structured train of correlated photons, each intensity peak corresponding to a specific photon number.<n>We quantify the emitter-photon and emitter-emitter entanglement generated during this process and show that the latter emerges in the long-time limit.
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• Abstract: An array of initially excited emitters coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide exhibits superradiant decay under the Born-Markov approximation, manifested as a coherent burst of photons in the output field. In this work, we employ tensor-network methods to investigate its non-Markovian dynamics induced by finite time delays in photon exchange among the emitters. We find that the superradiant burst breaks into a structured train of correlated photons, each intensity peak corresponding to a specific photon number. We quantify the emitter-photon and emitter-emitter entanglement generated during this process and show that the latter emerges in the long-time limit, as part of the excitation becomes trapped within the emitters' singlet subspace. We finally consider the decay of the system's most radiant state, the symmetric Dicke state, and show that time delay can lead to decay rates exceeding those predicted by the Markovian approximation.

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