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Published August 5, 2015 | Supplemental Material + Submitted + Published
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Superradiance for atoms trapped along a photonic crystal waveguide

Abstract

We report observations of superradiance for atoms trapped in the near field of a photonic crystal waveguide (PCW). By fabricating the PCW with a band edge near the D_1 transition of atomic cesium, strong interaction is achieved between trapped atoms and guided-mode photons. Following short-pulse excitation, we record the decay of guided-mode emission and find a superradiant emission rate scaling as Γ_(SR)∝NΓ_(1D) for average atom number 0.19≲N ≲2.6 atoms, where Γ_(1D)/Γ′=1.0±0.1 is the peak single-atom radiative decay rate into the PCW guided mode, and Γ′ is the radiative decay rate into all the other channels. These advances provide new tools for investigations of photon-mediated atom-atom interactions in the many-body regime.

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© 2015 American Physical Society. Received 14 March 2015; published 5 August 2015. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of D. J. Alton, D. E. Chang, K. S. Choi, J. D. Cohen, J. H. Lee, M. Lu, M. J. Martin, A. C. McClung, S. M. Meenehan, R. Norte, and L. Peng. Funding is provided by the IQIM, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Moore Foundation and by the DOD NSSEFF program (H. J. K.), the AFOSR QuMPASS MURI, NSF Grant No. PHY-1205729 (H. J. K.), and the DARPA ORCHID program. A. G. is supported by the Nakajima Foundation. S.-P. Y. and J. A. M. acknowledge support from the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award. A. G., C.-L. H., J. D. H., and S.-P. Y. contributed equally to this research.

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Published - PhysRevLett.115.063601.pdf

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