Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade in the Microwave Domain
Quantum Physics
2018-11-07 v4
Abstract
We have observed the unconventional photon blockade effect for microwave photons using two coupled superconducting resonators. As opposed to the conventional blockade, only weakly nonlinear resonators are required. The blockade is revealed through measurements of the second order correlation function of the microwave field inside one of the two resonators. The lowest measured value of is 0.4 for a resonator population of approximately photons. The time evolution of exhibits an oscillatory behavior, which is characteristic of the unconventional photon blockade.
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@article{arxiv.1801.04227,
title = {Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade in the Microwave Domain},
author = {Cyril Vaneph and Alexis Morvan and Gianluca Aiello and Mathieu Féchant and Marco Aprili and Julien Gabelli and Jérôme Estève},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04227},
year = {2018}
}