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Antibunched Emission of Photon-Pairs via Quantum Zeno Blockade

Quantum Physics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

We propose a new methodology, namely "quantum Zeno blockade," for managing light scattering at a few-photon level in general nonlinear-optical media, such as crystals, fibers, silicon microrings, and atomic vapors. Using this tool, antibunched emission of photon pairs can be achieved, leading to potent quantum-optics applications such as deterministic entanglement generation without the need for heralding. In a practical implementation using an on-chip toroidal microcavity immersed in rubidium vapor, we estimate that high-fidelity entangled photons can be produced on-demand at MHz rates or higher, corresponding to an improvement of 107\gtrsim10^7 times from the state-of-the-art.

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@article{arxiv.1111.7018,
  title  = {Antibunched Emission of Photon-Pairs via Quantum Zeno Blockade},
  author = {Yu-Ping Huang and Prem Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.7018},
  year   = {2015}
}

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to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett