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Giant emitters in a structured bath with non-Hermitian skin effect

Lei Du, Lingzhen Guo, Yan Zhang, Anton Frisk Kockum

2023Physical Review Research24 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

By nonlocally coupling quantum emitters, making them ``giant,'' to a non-Hermitian structured bath where Bloch's theorem breaks down and the non-Hermitian skin effect appears, unconventional light-matter interactions can be designed and harnessed. It's shown that giant emitters in such a bath can undergo excitation amplification or attenuation and interact with each other in a nonreciprocal manner without decohering.

Topics & Concepts

Hermitian matrixSkin effectPhysicsExcitationQuantumCoupling (piping)Quantum mechanicsAttenuationQuantum electrodynamicsTheoretical physicsMaterials scienceMetallurgyQuantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian PhysicsNonlinear Photonic SystemsQuantum chaos and dynamical systems