Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk
In this work, we analyze the spontaneous emission dynamics of a V-type quantum emitter near a graphene nanodisk based on the combination of electromagnetic and quantum dynamical calculations. The presence of the graphene nanodisk gives strong anisotropy to the Purcell factors of the quantum emitter,...
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| description | In this work, we analyze the spontaneous emission dynamics of a V-type quantum emitter near a graphene nanodisk based on the combination of electromagnetic and quantum dynamical calculations. The presence of the graphene nanodisk gives strong anisotropy to the Purcell factors of the quantum emitter, leading to interference effects in spontaneous emission appearing as coupling between the emitter’s upper levels. This effect is further enhanced by the strong light–matter interaction of the quantum emitter with the modified electromagnetic mode continuum, which induces non-Markovian spontaneous emission dynamics. We have studied the population dynamics of the quantum emitter at a specific distance from the center of the graphene nanodisk for various free-space decay widths and different quantum emitter’s initial conditions and have shown weak coupling results appearing with Markovian decay dynamics, obtained for quantum emitters with small free-space decay widths, and population dynamics that exhibits distinctly non-Markovian features, such as prominent decaying Rabi oscillations in the population evolution of the quantum emitter’s excited states and energy exchange between them during the overall population decay into the photonic mode continuum for largest free-space decay widths. Also, for the largest value of the free-space decay width, we obtain significant population trapping effects in the excited states of the quantum emitter. Furthermore, we find that the population dynamics for specific light–matter interaction strength conditions between the quantum emitter and the graphene nanodisk depend distinctively on the initial state of the quantum emitter, whether it is a single state or a superposition state. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8a3bfbacf1f94742af377916cac5e5bb2024-12-10T07:31:51ZengDe GruyterNanophotonics2192-86142024-06-0113254545455410.1515/nanoph-2024-0176Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodiskThanopulos Ioannis0Karanikolas Vasilios1Paspalakis Emmanuel2Materials Science Department, School of Natural Sciences, 37795University of Patras, Patras26504, GreeceInstitut für Materialwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Str. 3, 64287Darmstadt, GermanyMaterials Science Department, School of Natural Sciences, 37795University of Patras, Patras26504, GreeceIn this work, we analyze the spontaneous emission dynamics of a V-type quantum emitter near a graphene nanodisk based on the combination of electromagnetic and quantum dynamical calculations. The presence of the graphene nanodisk gives strong anisotropy to the Purcell factors of the quantum emitter, leading to interference effects in spontaneous emission appearing as coupling between the emitter’s upper levels. This effect is further enhanced by the strong light–matter interaction of the quantum emitter with the modified electromagnetic mode continuum, which induces non-Markovian spontaneous emission dynamics. We have studied the population dynamics of the quantum emitter at a specific distance from the center of the graphene nanodisk for various free-space decay widths and different quantum emitter’s initial conditions and have shown weak coupling results appearing with Markovian decay dynamics, obtained for quantum emitters with small free-space decay widths, and population dynamics that exhibits distinctly non-Markovian features, such as prominent decaying Rabi oscillations in the population evolution of the quantum emitter’s excited states and energy exchange between them during the overall population decay into the photonic mode continuum for largest free-space decay widths. Also, for the largest value of the free-space decay width, we obtain significant population trapping effects in the excited states of the quantum emitter. Furthermore, we find that the population dynamics for specific light–matter interaction strength conditions between the quantum emitter and the graphene nanodisk depend distinctively on the initial state of the quantum emitter, whether it is a single state or a superposition state.https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2024-0176quantum emitterv-typegraphene nanodiskstrong-couplingspontaneous emission interference |
| spellingShingle | Thanopulos Ioannis Karanikolas Vasilios Paspalakis Emmanuel Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk Nanophotonics quantum emitter v-type graphene nanodisk strong-coupling spontaneous emission interference |
| title | Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| title_full | Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| title_fullStr | Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| title_short | Strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| title_sort | strong coupling spontaneous emission interference near a graphene nanodisk |
| topic | quantum emitter v-type graphene nanodisk strong-coupling spontaneous emission interference |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2024-0176 |
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