Extreme single-excitation subradiance from two-band Bloch oscillations in atomic arrays

Luojia Wang; Da-Wei Wang; Luqi Yuan; Yaping Yang; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.506450

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 3, 571(2024)

Extreme single-excitation subradiance from two-band Bloch oscillations in atomic arrays

Luojia Wang¹, Da-Wei Wang², Luqi Yuan^1,6、*, Yaping Yang^3,7、*, and Xianfeng Chen^1,4,5,8、*

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information and State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Quantum Technology and Device, and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³MOE Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-Structured Materials, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

⁴Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁵Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

⁶e-mail: yuanluqi@sjtu.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: yang_yaping@tongji.edu.cn

⁸e-mail: xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn

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Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Sep. 21, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 30, 2023

Published Online: Feb. 29, 2024

The Author Email: Luqi Yuan (yuanluqi@sjtu.edu.cn), Yaping Yang (yang_yaping@tongji.edu.cn), Xianfeng Chen (xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.506450

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