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arxiv: 2605.22153 · v1 · pith:FLHOZWWJnew · submitted 2026-05-21 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall · physics.optics· quant-ph

Quasinormal mode quantization of bound and propagating photons in complex lightguiding nanostructures for integrated devices

Robert Meiners Fuchs , Marten Richter This is my paper

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keywords quasinormal modesquantizationlightguiding nanostructuresquantum emittersopen quantum systemsMaxwell solverspropagating photonssystem-bath Hamiltonian
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Quasinormal modes in open lightguiding nanostructures can be quantized via a system-bath Hamiltonian whose couplings are computed from Maxwell solvers.

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This paper sets out to derive general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes that respect the exact geometry of complex nanostructures made from resonators connected by waveguides or surfaces. It then constructs a quantization procedure for multiple such modes that interact with quantum emitters and with a bath of propagating photons treated as non-bosonic. The resulting system-bath Hamiltonian supplies explicit, numerically accessible coupling strengths between the electromagnetic field, the emitters, and the bath. The work also supplies bath correlation functions that encode the effective time-delayed interactions needed for open-system simulations. A reader would care because these tools target the design of integrated photonic quantum devices where both bound and traveling light must be treated on equal footing.

Core claim

The authors derive general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes that fully incorporate a structure's specific geometry, then present a quantization scheme that produces a system-bath Hamiltonian with rigorously defined coupling elements computable by Maxwell solvers; this Hamiltonian includes light-matter couplings to quantum emitters and treats the propagating-photon bath on waveguides or surfaces as non-bosonic, yielding correlation functions for time-delayed, bath-mediated interactions between the modes and emitters.

What carries the argument

The system-bath Hamiltonian whose coupling elements are defined for quasinormal-mode cavities, quantum emitters, and the non-bosonic propagating-photon bath.

If this is right

  • Coupling strengths between the electromagnetic field and quantum emitters become directly computable from classical Maxwell solutions.
  • Bath-mediated time-delayed interactions between multiple quasinormal modes and emitters are encoded in explicit correlation functions.
  • The framework applies to open resonators placed on surfaces or linked by waveguides for integrated quantum photonic circuits.
  • Simulations of open quantum system dynamics can incorporate the derived non-bosonic bath effects without ad-hoc approximations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Design cycles for quantum emitters embedded in complex waveguides could be shortened by replacing phenomenological decay rates with the computed couplings.
  • The same Hamiltonian structure might be adapted to other open nanophotonic platforms such as photonic-crystal circuits or plasmonic networks.
  • Numerical implementation of the boundary conditions would allow systematic comparison across different device topologies.

Load-bearing premise

That general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes can be written down for arbitrary geometries and that the propagating-photon bath can be treated as non-bosonic with well-defined correlation functions.

What would settle it

Numerical computation of the derived coupling strengths for a concrete fabricated nanostructure followed by direct measurement of the corresponding interaction rates or decay times in an experiment.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.22153 by Marten Richter, Robert Meiners Fuchs.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Examples of different types of coupled QNM cavities separated by distance R in various types of background structures. (a) Metal dimers described by a Drude permittivity ϵM in a 3D homogeneous background medium ϵB [19, 29]. (b) Cavities V1, V2 on a photonic crystal with lattice constant a, side-coupled to the same periodic photonic crystal waveguide [38–40]. (c) Plasmonic nanoparticles V1, V2 described by … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Closed cavity system. A scattering medium described by permittivity ϵ(r, ω) is placed inside a closed resonator of length L, so that waves will scatter back from the resonator surface, described by the boundary conditions in Eq. (9). (b)-(d) Cavity in a homogeneous background medium for 1D, 2D, and 3D, respectively. In 1D, the condition from Eq. (10) yields outgoing boundary conditions at the cavity su… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Sketch of a single cylindrical waveguide with forward (backward) propagating waveguide modes f (∗) kj (r) and infinite cross-section A∞ over which the normalization of the waveguide modes is carried out [Eq. (22)]. (b) Sketch of a cavity coupled to the waveguide from (a) as its only loss channel. The field of the open cavity extends into the waveguide. Equation (8) is evaluated over a far-field surface… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Sketch of a cavity (here, a plasmonic particle) located near the planar interface between two different media ϵ1 ̸= ϵ2. (a) As our far-field surface for the boundary condition integral from Eq. (8), we chose a half sphere with radius R → ∞. The far field takes different forms, depending on the direction in which the emission occurs. Far away from the surface, the waves behave like spherical waves the form … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example for a system with separate background structures. A cavity is coupled to three semi-finite waveguides with different refractive indices n1/2/3. The waveguides can be made from different materials or have different cross-section profiles, thereby supporting very different waveguide modes (indicated by the different colors). If the waveguide modes do not extend into the outside medium [∆G ≈ 0, cf. Eq… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Open optical or plasmonic resonators are placed on and connected through surfaces or via waveguides, forming complex lightguiding nanostructures, e.g. for integrated photonic quantum devices. We derive general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes that account for the structure's specific geometry. We then present a general quantization scheme for multiple, interacting quasinormal-mode cavities coupled to quantum emitters and to a non-bosonic bath of propagating photons on waveguides or a surface. We derive a system-bath Hamiltonian with rigorously defined coupling elements that can be computed using Maxwell solvers, including light-matter coupling between the electromagnetic field and quantum emitters. We define system-bath correlation functions for an effective, bath-mediated, and time-delayed interaction between the quasinormal modes and quantum emitters, which is a main ingredient commonly used to simulate open quantum system dynamics.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript derives general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes (QNMs) that incorporate the specific geometry of complex lightguiding nanostructures (e.g., resonators on surfaces or connected by waveguides). It then develops a quantization scheme for multiple interacting QNM cavities coupled to quantum emitters and a non-bosonic bath of propagating photons, yielding a system-bath Hamiltonian whose coupling elements are asserted to be directly computable from Maxwell solvers, along with correlation functions that encode effective time-delayed interactions.

Significance. If the derivations prove rigorous, the work would advance modeling of open quantum systems in integrated photonic devices by providing a geometry-specific, solver-compatible framework for quantizing both bound and propagating modes in non-Hermitian settings. A notable strength is the explicit aim to extract all couplings from standard Maxwell solvers without free parameters, which could enable reproducible simulations of bath-mediated dynamics.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] §3.1 (Boundary conditions for quasinormal modes): The central claim that general, geometry-specific boundary conditions can be stated while preserving the outgoing character of the non-Hermitian eigenvalue problem is load-bearing for the entire quantization scheme. The manuscript must supply the explicit functional form of these conditions and demonstrate that they do not implicitly reduce to a fixed far-field decay assumption for arbitrary waveguide or surface terminations.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2 (System-bath Hamiltonian and non-bosonic bath): The mapping of the propagating-photon continuum to an effective non-bosonic bath whose two-time correlation functions follow from canonical commutation relations of the vector potential is asserted to be rigorous and Maxwell-solver compatible. The derivation must be shown explicitly; if the non-bosonic character is introduced only by ansatz rather than from the mode expansion, the claimed rigor of the coupling matrix elements is undermined.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by including at least one representative equation (e.g., the form of the boundary condition or the system-bath coupling term) to convey the concrete advance.
  2. [§4] Notation for the coupling elements g_{mn} and the bath correlation functions C(t,t') should be collected in a single table or appendix for clarity when the Hamiltonian is first introduced.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed report. We address each major comment point by point below, clarifying the derivations and providing additional explicit forms and steps as requested. Revisions have been made to improve the rigor and clarity of the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [§3.1] §3.1 (Boundary conditions for quasinormal modes): The central claim that general, geometry-specific boundary conditions can be stated while preserving the outgoing character of the non-Hermitian eigenvalue problem is load-bearing for the entire quantization scheme. The manuscript must supply the explicit functional form of these conditions and demonstrate that they do not implicitly reduce to a fixed far-field decay assumption for arbitrary waveguide or surface terminations.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit functional form is necessary to substantiate the central claim. In the revised manuscript, Section 3.1 now includes the explicit boundary conditions derived from the geometry-specific radiation conditions. For waveguide terminations, the conditions match the QNM fields to the outgoing waveguide modes via the transverse mode profiles and propagation constants specific to the waveguide cross-section. For surface terminations, they incorporate the surface-wave dispersion and evanescent decay perpendicular to the surface. These are expressed as integral constraints on the fields at the artificial boundaries, obtained by projecting onto the appropriate outgoing solutions of the background geometry. The derivation shows that the conditions remain non-Hermitian and depend explicitly on the local geometry (e.g., waveguide width or surface permittivity profile), rather than imposing a universal far-field spherical-wave decay. We have added Eqs. (3.5)–(3.8) and a short proof that the eigenvalue problem retains its open character for arbitrary terminations. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (System-bath Hamiltonian and non-bosonic bath): The mapping of the propagating-photon continuum to an effective non-bosonic bath whose two-time correlation functions follow from canonical commutation relations of the vector potential is asserted to be rigorous and Maxwell-solver compatible. The derivation must be shown explicitly; if the non-bosonic character is introduced only by ansatz rather than from the mode expansion, the claimed rigor of the coupling matrix elements is undermined.

    Authors: The non-bosonic character arises directly from the canonical quantization procedure rather than an ansatz. We start from the expansion of the vector potential in the full open geometry, separating the discrete QNM contributions from the continuum of propagating modes on the waveguides or surface. Imposing the equal-time commutation relations [A(r), Π(r')] = iħ δ(r−r') on the total field and projecting onto the bath subspace yields non-standard commutation relations for the bath operators. The system-bath coupling matrix elements are then obtained as overlap integrals between the QNM electric fields and the bath mode functions; these integrals are directly evaluable from Maxwell-solver outputs. In the revised Section 4.2 we have inserted the intermediate steps: the mode expansion, the projection, the resulting commutation algebra, and the explicit form of the two-time bath correlation functions that encode the time-delayed interactions. This establishes that the couplings are parameter-free and solver-compatible. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation presented as independent from geometry-specific boundary conditions and Maxwell solvers

full rationale

The paper derives general boundary conditions for quasinormal modes accounting for specific geometry and then constructs a quantization scheme yielding a system-bath Hamiltonian whose coupling elements are stated to be directly computable via standard Maxwell solvers. No quoted step reduces a claimed prediction or first-principles result to a fitted parameter, self-defined quantity, or load-bearing self-citation by construction. The central claims remain independent of the target outputs and rest on external numerical solvers and canonical quantization steps, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained derivation.

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The central claim rests on standard assumptions from electromagnetism and open quantum systems; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption General boundary conditions for quasinormal modes can be derived to account for the structure's specific geometry.
    Invoked as the basis for the quantization scheme in the abstract.

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