Self-Induced Superradiant Masing
Abstract: We study superradiant masing in a hybrid system composed of nitrogen-vacancy center spins in diamond coupled to a superconducting microwave cavity. After the first fast superradiant decay we observe transient pulsed and then quasi-continuous masing. This emission dynamics can be described by a phenomenological model incorporating the transfer of inverted spin excitations into the superradiant window of spins resonant with the cavity. After experimentally excluding cQED effects associated with the pumping of the masing transition we conjecture that direct higher-order spin-spin interactions are responsible for creating the dynamics and the transition to the sustained masing. Our experiment thus opens up a novel way to explore many-body physics in disordered systems through cQED and superradiance.
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