2019MNRAS.482.5492H

In this paper, we develop a model for fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on triggered superradiance (SR) and apply it to previously published data of FRB 110220 and FRB 121102. We show how a young pulsar located at ∼100 pc or more from an SR/FRB system could initiate the onset of a powerful burst of radiation detectable over cosmological distances. Our models using the OH ²Π_3/2 (J = 3/2) 1612 MHz and ²Π_3/2 (J = 5/2) 6030 MHz spectral lines match the light curves well and suggest the entanglement of more than 10³⁰ initially inverted molecules over lengths of approximately 300 au for a single SR sample. SR also accounts for the observed temporal narrowing of FRB pulses with increasing frequency for FRB 121102, and predicts a scaling of the FRB spectral bandwidth with the frequency of observation, which we found to be consistent with the existing data.