  We study the evolution of qubits amplitudes in a one-dimensional chain
consisting of three equidistantly spaced noninteracting qubits embedded in an
open waveguide. The study is performed in the frame of single-excitation
subspace, where the only qubit in the chain is initially excited. We show that
the dynamics of qubits amplitudes crucially depend on the value of $kd$, where
$k$ is the wave vector, $d$ is a distance between neighbor qubits. If $kd$ is
equal to an integer multiple of $\pi$, then the qubits are excited to a
stationary level. In this case, it is the dark states which prevent qubits from
decaying to zero even though they do not contribute to the output spectrum of
photon emission. For other values of $kd$ the excitations of qubits exhibit the
damping oscillations which represent the vacuum Rabi oscillations in a
three-qubit system. In this case, the output spectrum of photon radiation is
determined by a subradiant state which has the lowest decay rate. We also
investigated the case with the frequency of a central qubit being different
from that of the edge qubits. In this case, the qibits decay rates can be
controlled by the frequency detuning between the central and the edge qubits.
