Multidimensional super- and subradiance in waveguide quantum electrodynamics

Abstract

We study the collective decay rates of multidimensional quantum networks in which one-dimensional waveguides form an intersecting hyperrectangular lattice, with qubits located at the lattice points. We introduce and motivate the dimensional reduction of poles (DRoP) conjecture, which identifies all collective decay rates of such networks via a connection to waveguides with a one-dimensional topology (e.g., a linear chain of qubits). Using DRoP, we consider many-body effects such as superradiance, subradiance, and bound states in continuum in multidimensional quantum networks. We find that, unlike one-dimensional linear chains, multidimensional quantum networks have superradiance in distinct levels, which we call multidimensional superradiance. Furthermore, we generalize the N^{−3} scaling of subradiance in a linear chain to d-dimensional networks.