Dominik Schneble, Stony Brook
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Quantum Optics without Photons: Exploring Waveguide QED with Ultracold Atoms
Abstract: Understanding and harnessing light-matter interactions in novel contexts is central to the development of modern quantum optics and its applications. One example is the emergent field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED), which investigates the coupling between quantum emitters and a one-dimensional photonic reservoir. While recent work has observed signatures of non-exponential spontaneous decay, atom-photon bound states, and the enhancement of collective dynamics, a clean experimental access to such effects generally remains challenging. We approach fundamental questions in waveguide QED with a platform of artificial matter-wave emitters in an optical lattice that undergo spontaneous decay by emitting single atoms, rather than single photons. I will introduce the unique features of this unconventional platform and present our recent work on radiative effects at the boundary between atomic physics, quantum optics and condensed-matter physics.
Bio: Dominik Schneble received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2002 for work in the field of atom optics. He joined Stony Brook in 2005 after conducting postdoctoral research at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT. In 2020, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.
3:00 PM in PAS 201 / Zoom https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86395646910
Refreshments in PAS 236, 2:30PM