Environment-Enhanced Single-Photon Absorption in a Nano-Ring of Dipole-Coupled Quantum Emitters

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28085v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 07:39:52 GMT
• Title: Environment-Enhanced Single-Photon Absorption in a Nano-Ring of Dipole-Coupled Quantum Emitters
• Abstract summary: In dense subwavelength atomic arrays only a single collective eigenmode in the single-excitation manifold couples strongly to free-space radiation, exhibiting superradiant spontaneous emission.<n>Here we demonstrate that these subradiant modes via additional decoherence mechanisms, such as dephasing or coupling to phonons, can significantly enhance single-photon absorption in a nanoring of quantum emitters.
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• Abstract: Decoherence is mostly detrimental in quantum information and quantum optics applications. However, the interplay between environment-induced incoherent dynamics and unitary evolution can give rise to novel quantum many-body phenomena that can be harnessed as a useful resource. As is well known, in dense subwavelength atomic arrays only a single collective eigenmode in the single-excitation manifold couples strongly to free-space radiation, exhibiting superradiant spontaneous emission. Most of the remaining eigenstates form a manifold of weakly radiative modes, giving rise to long-lived subradiant excitations. Here we demonstrate that populating these subradiant modes via additional decoherence mechanisms, such as dephasing or coupling to phonons, can significantly enhance single-photon absorption in a nanoring of quantum emitters. Such nanoring geometry is particularly appealing due to its unique optical properties and its resemblance to natural light-harvesting complexes, which serve as efficient antennas in photosynthesis. Our findings may shed light on fundamental aspects of energy absorption in nature; despite the much greater complexity of biological systems, they may nonetheless operate according to similar underlying optical principles.

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