PIRSA:22070011

Collective effects when photons interact with many atoms

Robicheaux, F. (2022). Collective effects when photons interact with many atoms. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/22070011

Robicheaux, Francis. Collective effects when photons interact with many atoms. Perimeter Institute, Jul. 14, 2022, https://pirsa.org/22070011 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:22070011,
            doi = {10.48660/22070011},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/22070011},
            author = {Robicheaux, Francis},
            keywords = {Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Collective effects when photons interact with many atoms},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2022},
            month = {jul},
            note = {PIRSA:22070011 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Francis Robicheaux Purdue University

DOI 10.48660/22070011
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Abstract

Atoms separated by distances comparable to or less than the wavelength of a photon for a dipole allowed transition can manifest collective effects. These effects can be apparent in the radiative lifetime of an excited state, how the atoms recoil when a photon is emitted, the transmission/reflectivity of an atomic cloud, etc. This talk will describe some of these processes and the theoretical machinery used to model them. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2109987-PHY.