Photon transport in a dissipative chain of nonlinear cavities
Abstract
We analyze a chain of coupled nonlinear optical cavities driven by a coherent source of light localized at one end and subject to uniform dissipation. We characterize photon transport by studying the populations and the photon correlations as a function of position. When complemented with input-output theory, these quantities provide direct information about photon transmission through the system. The position of single- and multi-photon resonances directly reflect the structure of the many-body energy levels. This shows how a study of transport along a coupled cavity array can provide rich information about the strongly correlated (many-body) states of light even in presence of dissipation. By means of a numerical algorithm based on the time-evolving block decimation scheme adapted to mixed states, we are able to simulate arrays up to sixty cavities.
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@article{arxiv.1412.2509,
title = {Photon transport in a dissipative chain of nonlinear cavities},
author = {Alberto Biella and Leonardo Mazza and Iacopo Carusotto and Davide Rossini and Rosario Fazio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2509},
year = {2015}
}
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12 pages, 14 figures