• DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/ac27e0
• Corpus ID: 235489976

Quantum electrodynamics in anisotropic and tilted Dirac photonic lattices

@article{RedondoYuste2021QuantumEI,
  title={Quantum electrodynamics in anisotropic and tilted Dirac photonic lattices},
  author={Jaime Redondo-Yuste and Mar{\'i}a Blanco de Paz and Paloma Arroyo Huidobro and Alejandro Gonz{\'a}lez-Tudela},
  journal={New Journal of Physics},
  year={2021},
  volume={23}
}

• Jaime Redondo-Yuste, M. Blanco de Paz, +1 author A. González-Tudela
• Published 20 June 2021
• Physics
• New Journal of Physics

One of the most striking predictions of quantum electrodynamics is that vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field can lead to spontaneous emission of atoms as well as photon-mediated interactions among them. Since these processes strongly depend on the nature of the photonic bath, a current burgeoning field is the study of their modification in the presence of photons with non-trivial energy dispersions, e.g. the ones confined in photonic crystals. A remarkable example is the case of isotropic Dirac-photons, which has been recently shown to lead to non-exponential spontaneous emission as well as dissipation-less long-range emitter interactions. In this work, we show how to further tune these processes by considering anisotropic Dirac cone dispersions, which include tilted, semi-Dirac, and the recently discovered type II and III Dirac points. In particular, we show how by changing the anisotropy of the lattice one can change both the spatial shape of the interactions as well as its coherent/incoherent nature. Finally, we theoretically analyze a possible implementation based on subwavelength atomic arrays where these energy dispersions can be engineered and interfaced with quantum emitters.