Fast Optomechanical Photon Blockade
Quantum Physics
2022-12-02 v1
Abstract
The photon blockade effect is commonly exploited in the development of single-photon sources. While the photon blockade effect could be used to prepare high-fidelity single-photon states in idealized regimes, practical implementations in optomechanical systems suffer from an interplay of competing processes. Here we derive a control scheme that exploits destructive interference of Fock state amplitudes of more than one photon. The resulting preparation time for photon-blockaded quantum states is limited only by the optomechanical interaction strength and can thus be orders of magnitude shorter than in existing schemes that achieve photon-blockaded state in the steady state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.00628,
title = {Fast Optomechanical Photon Blockade},
author = {Yuxun Ling and Sofia Qvarfort and Florian Mintert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00628},
year = {2022}
}