{"id":199890,"date":"2024-11-21T01:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/using-matter-waves-scientists-unveil-novel-collective-behaviors-in-quantum-optics"},"modified":"2024-11-21T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:31:56","slug":"using-matter-waves-scientists-unveil-novel-collective-behaviors-in-quantum-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/using-matter-waves-scientists-unveil-novel-collective-behaviors-in-quantum-optics","title":{"rendered":"Using matter waves, scientists unveil novel collective behaviors in quantum optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-matter-waves-scientists-unveil-novel-collective-behaviors-in-quantum-optics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Dominik Schneble, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has uncovered a novel regime, or set of conditions within a system, for cooperative radiative phenomena, casting new light on a 70-year-old problem in quantum optics.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings on previously unseen collective spontaneous emission effects, in an array of synthetic (artificial) atoms, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02676-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, accompanied by a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prresearch\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevResearch.6.033196\" target=\"_blank\">theoretical paper<\/a> in Physical Review Research.<\/p>\n<p>Spontaneous emission is a phenomenon in which an excited atom falls to a lower-energy state and spontaneously emits a quantum of electromagnetic radiation in the form of a single <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a>. When a single excited atom decays and emits a photon, the probability of finding the atom in its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/excited+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">excited state<\/a> falls exponentially to zero as time progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Dominik Schneble, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has uncovered a novel regime, or set of conditions within a system, for cooperative radiative phenomena, casting new light on a 70-year-old problem in quantum optics. Their findings on previously unseen collective spontaneous emission effects, in an array of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}