Photon-antibunching in the fluorescence of statistical ensembles of emitters at an optical nanofiber-tip

TL;DR

This paper explores how dipole-dipole interactions in a statistical ensemble of cold atoms near an optical nanofiber tip cause photon antibunching, with simulations showing suppressed multi-photon emission.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum Monte Carlo simulation approach to analyze photon statistics in atomic ensembles with dipole interactions near nanofiber tips.

Findings

Dipole interactions suppress simultaneous photon emissions.

Photon autocorrelation function $g^{(2)}$ indicates antibunching.

Results applicable to various interacting emitter ensembles.

Abstract

This proposal investigates the photon-statistics of light emitted by a statistical ensemble of cold atoms excited by the near-field of an optical nanofiber tip. Dipole-dipole interactions of atoms at such short distance from each other suppress the simultaneous emission of more than one photon and lead to antibunching of photons. We consider a mean atom number on the order of one and deal with a poissonian mixture of one and two atoms including dipole-dipole interactions and collective decay. Time tracks of the atomic states are simulated in quantum Monte Carlo simulations from which the $g^{(2)}$-photon autocorrelation function is derived. The general results can be applied to any statistical ensemble of emitters that are interacting by dipole-dipole interactions.