Nonlinear Quantum Optics in Optomechanical Nanoscale Waveguides
Quantum Physics
2017-09-28 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Optics
Abstract
We explore the possibility of achieving a significant nonlinear phase shift among photons propagating in nanoscale waveguides exploiting interactions among photons that are mediated by vibrational modes and induced through Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS). We introduce a configuration that allows slowing down the photons by several orders of magnitude via SBS involving sound waves and two pump fields. We extract the conditions for maintaining vanishing amplitude gain or loss for slowly propagating photons while keeping the influence of thermal phonons to the minimum. The nonlinear phase among two counter-propagating photons can be used to realize a deterministic phase gate.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.03355,
title = {Nonlinear Quantum Optics in Optomechanical Nanoscale Waveguides},
author = {Hashem Zoubi and Klemens Hammerer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.03355},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures