2025/10/19 by Giovanni Miano, Miano, Giovanni, Loris Maria Cangemi +3
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Dielectric #Electromagnetic field #FOS: Physical sciences #Formalism (music) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Noise (video) #Noise spectrum #Open quantum system #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum dynamics #Quantum noise #Strong Light-Matter Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.17019
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University)
openalex publication_date 2025/10/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
The control of interactions among quantum emitters through nanophotonic structures offers significant opportunities for quantum technologies. However, a rigorous theoretical description of the interaction of multiple quantum emitters with complex, dispersive dielectric objects remains challenging. Here, we introduce an approach based on the modified Langevin noise formalism that unveils the roles of both the noise polarization currents of the dielectrics and the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field scattered by the dielectrics. This work extends Refs. \citemianoquantum2025 and \citemianospectral2025 to the general case of an arbitrary number of emitters. The proposed approach allows us to describe the dynamics of the quantum emitters for arbitrary initial quantum states of the electromagnetic environment, consisting of two independent bosonic reservoirs, a medium-assisted reservoir and a scattering-assisted reservoir, each characterized by its own spectral density matrix. Specifically, we examine situations where both reservoirs are initially in thermal quantum states but have different temperatures. Understanding how these reservoirs shape the dynamics of the emitters is crucial for understanding light-matter interactions in complex electromagnetic environments and for improving intrinsic emitter properties within structured environments.