Steady-state superradiance

We consider a system of $N$ two-level systems (TLSs) with identical frequency $\omega_{0}$, incoherently pumped at a rate $\gamma_\text{P}$ and de-excitating at a collective emission rate $\gamma_\text{CE}$,

\begin{eqnarray} \dot{\rho} &=& -i\lbrack \omega_{0}J_z,\rho \rbrack +\frac{\gamma_\text {CE}}{2}\mathcal{L}_{J_{-}}[\rho] +\frac{\gamma_\text{P}}{2}\sum_{n=1}^{N}\mathcal{L}_{J_{+,n}}[\rho] \end{eqnarray}

This system can sustain superradiant light emission and line narrowing [1-3], whose peak intensity scales proportionally to $N^2$.


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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from qutip import *
from piqs import *

1) Time evolution

We study the system of Eq. (1) (above) by using the Permutational Invariant Quantum Solver (PIQS) to build the Liouvillian of the system. Using QuTiP's $\texttt{mesolve}()$ we can calculate operators expectation values in time as well as higher order correlation functions [4,5].

System properties


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N = 10
system = Dicke(N = N)
[jx, jy, jz, jp, jm] = jspin(N)
w0 = 1
h0 = w0 * jz
gCE = 1
gP = N * gCE
system.hamiltonian = h0
system.collective_emission = gCE
system.pumping = gP

Liouvillian and steady state $\rho_\text{ss}$


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L = system.liouvillian()
rhoss = steadystate(L)
jpjm_ss = expect(jp*jm, rhoss)

Time integration for $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ and $\langle J_{+}J_{-}\rangle (t)$

We define the $g^{(2)}(\tau)$ of the system as the two-time correlation function mapping the photonic degrees of freedom onto the TLS collective operators

\begin{eqnarray*} g^{(2)}(\tau) = \frac{\langle: J^\dagger(\tau) a^\dagger(0) a(\tau) a(0) :\rangle}{|\langle: a^\dagger(0) a(0) :\rangle|^2}= \frac{\langle: J_{+}(\tau) J_{+}(0) J_{-}(\tau) J_{-}(0) :\rangle}{|\langle J_{+}(0) J_{-}(0) \rangle|^2} \end{eqnarray*}

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# time evolution parameters
nt = 1000
td = np.log(N)/(N*gCE)
tmax = 5 * td
t = np.linspace(0, tmax, nt)
# initial state
rho0= dicke(N, N/2, -N/2)
# calculate g2(tau)
A = jp*jm
rhoA = jm*rhoss*jp
#g2(tau)
result1 = mesolve(L, rhoA, t, [], e_ops = [A], options = Options(store_states=True))
g2t = result1.expect[0]
#rho(t)
result2 = mesolve(L, rho0, t, [], e_ops = A, options = Options(store_states=True))
rhot = result2.states
jpjmt = result2.expect[0]

Visualization


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j2max = (0.5 * N + 1) * (0.5 * N)

plt.rc('text', usetex = True)
label_size = 20
plt.rc('xtick', labelsize=label_size) 
plt.rc('ytick', labelsize=label_size)

fig1 = plt.figure()
plt.plot(t/td, g2t/jpjm_ss**2, '-')
plt.plot(t/td, 1+0*g2t, '--')
plt.xlabel(r'$\tau/t_\mathrm{D}$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.ylabel(r'$g^{(2)}(\tau)$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.xticks([0,(tmax/2)/td,tmax/td])
plt.show()
plt.close()


fig2 = plt.figure()
plt.plot(t/td, jpjmt/j2max, '-')
plt.xlabel(r'$t/t_\mathrm{D}$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.ylabel(r'$\langle J_{+}J_{-}\rangle (t)$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.xticks([0,(tmax/2)/td,tmax/td])
plt.title(r'Light emission', fontsize = label_size)
plt.show()
plt.close()


2) Maximum of light emission as a function of $\frac{\gamma_\text{P}}{N\gamma_\text{CE}}$

We perform a study of the scaling of the steady state light emission of the system as a function of the pumping rate, normalized by the number of TLSs and the collective emission rate. The results show an optimal point for $\frac{\gamma_\text{P}}{N\gamma_\text{CE}}\simeq 1$.


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# Cycle on Coefficients
gCE = 1
gP0 = 1
gP_min_exp = -20
gP_max_exp = 20
gP_stepsize = 0.5
gP_list = np.arange(gP_min_exp, gP_max_exp+1, gP_stepsize)*0.1
gP_list_log = 10**(gP_list)

jpjmss_max_list = []
for i in gP_list_log:
    gP = i*gP0
    system = Dicke(hamiltonian = jz, N = N, pumping = gP, collective_emission = gCE)
    liouv = system.liouvillian()
    #steadystate
    rho_ss = steadystate(liouv)
    jpjm_ss = expect(jp*jm, rho_ss)
    jpjmss_max_list.append(jpjm_ss)

Visualization


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intensity_max = float(N)*gCE/2*(float(N)*gCE/2+1)
normalized_intensity = np.array(jpjmss_max_list)/intensity_max
plt.semilogx(gP_list_log/(gCE*N), normalized_intensity, '-')
label_size = 20
plt.xlabel(r'${\gamma_\mathrm{P}}/\left({N\gamma_\mathrm{CE}}\right)$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.ylabel(r'$\langle J_{+}J_{-}\rangle_\mathrm{ss}$', fontsize = label_size)
plt.title(r'Steady-state light emission', fontsize = label_size)
plt.show()
plt.close()


References

[1] D. Meiser and M.J. Holland, Phys. Rev. A 81, 033847 (2010)

[2] D. Meiser and M.J. Holland, Phys. Rev. A 81, 063827 (2010)

[3] J.G. Bohnet et al. Nature 484, 78 (2012)

[4] J.R. Johansson, P.D. Nation, and F. Nori, Comp. Phys. Comm. 183, 1760 (2012) http://qutip.org


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