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arXiv:2204.02622 · Physical Review A

Interplay between disorder and collective coherent response: Superradiance and spectral motional narrowing in the time domain

Hsing-Ta Chen, Zeyu Zhou, Maxim Sukharev, Joseph Eli Subotnik, Abraham Nitzan

Published Nov 2, 2022• 28 citations
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Abstract

Typically, in molecular ensembles, the fast random modulation of transition frequencies is merely considered to result in molecular dephasing. In contrast, the authors here show that such modulation may actually recover collective superradiant emission.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.106.053703

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