Subradiance and entanglement in atoms with several independent decay channels

Abstract

Spontaneous emission of a two--level atom in free space is modified by other atoms in its vicinity leading to super- and sub-radiance. In particular, for atomic distances closer than the transition wavelength the maximally entangled antisymmetric superposition state of two individually excited atomic dipole moments possesses no total dipole moment and will not decay spontaneously at all. Such a two-atom dark state does not exist, if the atoms possess alternative decay channels towards other atomic lower energy states. However, we show here that for any atomic state with $N-1$ independent spontaneous decay channels one can always find a $N$-particle highly entangled state, which completely decouples from the free radiation field and does not decay. Moreover, we show that this state is the unique state orthogonal to the subspace spanned by the lower energy states with this property. Its sub-radiant property largely survives at finite atomic distances.

6 pages 5 figures

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