2nd International Workshop on Quantum Optics with Giant Atomic Emitters

Following the first workshop on giant atomic emitters in Zürich 2023, we are excited to welcome everyone in the community to a gathering where the field of giant atoms got its start a decade ago. The aim is for this workshop to become a biannual event.

Giant atomic emitters have a spatial extent that is non-negligible compared to the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation or sound they interact with, usually by coupling to such a field at multiple points. Until a first experiment at Chalmers University of Technology in 2014, this was a scenario rarely encountered in the study of light-matter interactions. Giant atomic emitters challenge standard approximations in quantum optics, such as the electric dipole approximation or the Markov approximation. Moreover the emission and absorption at the multiple coupling points leads to interference effects that both can modify well-known quantum-optics effects and give birth to new phenomena not seen with small atoms. The relatively young research field studying giant atoms in quantum optics has made many interesting discoveries in recent years, both in theory and experiment. This workshop aims to bring together the giant-atom community, from senior researchers to research students, to identify current trends and to discuss future directions of the field.

Organisers:

Anton Frisk Kockum, Ariadna Soro Álvarez, Guangze Chen