Stabilization of dark states in emitter arrays coupled to a half-waveguide

Quantum Physics arXiv:2609.03040 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 2 Sep 2026] Title:Stabilization of dark states in emitter arrays coupled to a half-waveguide Authors:Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Susanne F. Yelin, Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Stuart J. Masson View a PDF of the paper titled Stabilization of dark states in emitter arrays coupled to a half-waveguide, by Oriol Rubies-Bigorda and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The radiative properties of quantum emitters are profoundly influenced by their electromagnetic environment. When coupled to a waveguide terminated at one end by a mirror, distant emitters interact strongly via virtual photon exchange, leading to collective superradiant and subradiant states with enhanced or suppressed decay rates. We demonstrate that applying optimal frequency shifts to each emitter enables the formation of perfect single-excitation dark states (i.e. states with zero decay rate) and near-perfect multi-excitation dark states in small ensembles. These collective states can be deterministically prepared with high fidelity using classical driving fields or few-photon pulses propagating along the waveguide. These results, readily implementable in superconducting qubit platforms, open new avenues for quantum information storage, networking and control of light. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2609.03040 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2609.03040v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.03040 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Oriol Rubies-Bigorda [view email] [v1] Wed, 2 Sep 2026 18:12:41 UTC (4,166 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Stabilization of dark states in emitter arrays coupled to a half-waveguide, by Oriol Rubies-Bigorda and 3 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-09 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)