Collective Effects in Light-Matter Interactions
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: interaction of light with ultracold atoms; collective effects in light scattering; quantum sensing with entangled atoms and matter waves
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Some emergent phenomena of light–matter interactions cannot be understood from the angle of susceptibility of individual atoms to light; rather, they stem from a collective response of the material system. Collective effects in light–matter interactions typically present different scaling with the number of constituents in the sample, such as superradiant emission of light, collective spin squeezing of atoms interacting with an optical cavity, or Anderson localization of light, to name just a few. Several of these effects provide/represent valuable resources for the implementation of photonic devices operating at the classical or quantum level, such as increased sensitivity, metrological gain, higher bandwidth, noise reduction, enhanced lifetime for the storage of quantum information, and robustness against decoherence.
This Special Issue aims at gathering the newest advances in the field of collective effects in light–matter interactions, including many-body modifications of the electrical susceptibility, light scattering by dense atomic samples and atomic arrays, light transport within topologically protected modes, etc. Researchers are invited to submit their contributions to this Special Issue, whose publication will attest to the vitality and importance of this research area.
We look forward to your submissions.
Dr. Philippe Wilhelm Courteille
Dr. Raul Teixeira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- collective light–matter interaction
- collective light scattering
- many-body quantum systems
- anderson localization
- collective atomic spin squeezing
- topological edge modes
- superradiance
- subradiance
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