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We study effects of direct interatomic interaction on cooperative processes in atom-photon dynamics. Using a model of two-level atoms with Ising-type interaction as an example, it is demonstrated that interparticle interaction can promote cooperative radiative relaxation. For small number of atoms this results in inhibition of incoherent spontaneous decay leading to the regime of collective pulse relaxation. Above superradiance threshold increase in delay time and enhancement of superradiance is occurred. In the case of strong interaction (as compared to excitation energy of an atom) transition to the regime of multiphoton relaxation occurs, which we discuss using a simple model of two atoms in a high-Q single mode cavity. It is shown that such transition is accompanied by Rabi oscillations involving many-atom multiphoton states. Dephasing effect of dipole-dipole interaction and solitonic mechanism of relaxation are discussed as well.
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The article is published in the original. The essentials of the paper were reported at the 13th International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (May 28–June 1, 2010, Kyiv, Ukraine).
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Lukyanets, S., Bevzenko, D. Enhanced superradiance effect in a system of interacting two-level atoms and crossover from coherent to many-atom multiphoton relaxation regime. Opt. Spectrosc. 111, 727–732 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X11120198
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