Single-photon superradiance and cooperative Lamb shift in an optoelectronic device (Conference Presentation)

Carlo Sirtori

doi:10.1117/12.2255698

20 April 2017 Single-photon superradiance and cooperative Lamb shift in an optoelectronic device (Conference Presentation)

Carlo Sirtori

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Proceedings Volume 10123, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XVI; 101231H (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255698
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Superradiance is one of the many fascinating phenomena predicted by quantum electrodynamics that have first been experimentally demonstrated in atomic systems and more recently in condensed matter systems like quantum dots, superconducting q-bits, cyclotron transitions and plasma oscillations in quantum wells (QWs). It occurs when a dense collection of N identical two-level emitters are phased via the exchange of photons, giving rise to enhanced light-matter interaction, hence to a faster emission rate. Of great interest is the regime where the ensemble interacts with one photon only and therefore all of the atoms, but one, are in the ground state. In this case the quantum superposition of all possible configurations produces a symmetric state that decays radiatively with a rate N times larger than that of the individual oscillators. This phenomenon, called single photon superradiance, results from the exchange of real photons among the N emitters. Yet, to single photon superradiance is also associated another collective effect that renormalizes the emission frequency, known as cooperative Lamb shift. In this work, we show that single photon superradiance and cooperative Lamb shift can be engineered in a semiconductor device by coupling spatially separated plasma resonances arising from the collective motion of confined electrons in QWs. These resonances hold a giant dipole along the growth direction z and have no mutual Coulomb coupling. They thus behave as a collection of macro-atoms on different positions along the z axis. Our device is therefore a test bench to simulate the low excitation regime of quantum electrodynamics.

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Carlo Sirtori "Single-photon superradiance and cooperative Lamb shift in an optoelectronic device (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10123, Novel In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers XVI, 101231H (20 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255698

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Photons

Quantum wells

Single photon

Optoelectronic devices

Plasma

Quantum electrodynamics

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