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There is generally no obvious evidence in any direct relation between photon blockade and atomic coherence. Here instead of only illustrating the photon statistics, we show an interesting relation between the steady-state photon blockade…

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We review the unconventional photon blockade mechanism. This quantum effect remarkably enables a strongly sub-Poissonian light statistics, even from a system characterized by a weak single photon nonlinearity. We revisit the past results,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 H. Flayac , V. Savona

Photon coincidence spectroscopy is a promising technique for probing the nonlinear regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics in the optical domain, however its accuracy is mitigated by two factors: higher-order photon correlations, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Horvath , B. C. Sanders

The research article studies the unconventional photon blockade effect in a hybrid optomechanical system with an embedded spin-triplet state. The interaction between the optomechanical system and the spin state generates new transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yao Dong , Jing-jing Wang , Guo-Feng Zhang

Measuring the quantum dynamics of a mechanical system, when few phonons are involved, remains a challenge. We show that a superconducting microwave resonator linearly coupled to the mechanical mode constitutes a very powerful probe for this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 Nicolas Didier , Stefano Pugnetti , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Rosario Fazio

We explore the photon statistics of light emitted from a system comprising a single four--level atom strongly coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity mode which is driven by a coherent laser field. In the weak driving regime this system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. Rebić , A. S. Parkins , S. M. Tan

Ultrastrong light-matter interaction in an optomechanical system can result in nonlinear optical effects such as photon blockade. The system-bath couplings in such systems play an essential role in observing these effects. Here we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 D. Hu , S. -Y. Huang , J. -Q. Liao , L. Tian , H. -S. Goan

We present a new optomechanical device where the motion of a micromechanical membrane couples to a microwave resonance of a three-dimensional superconducting cavity. With this architecture, we realize ultrastrong parametric coupling, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 G. A. Peterson , S. Kotler , F. Lecocq , K. Cicak , X. Y. Jin , R. W. Simmonds , J. Aumentado , J. D. Teufel

In our recent paper [1], we reported observations of photon blockade by one atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity. In support of these measurements, here we provide an expanded discussion of the general phenomenology of photon blockade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. M. Birnbaum , A. Boca , R. Miller , A. D. Boozer , T. E. Northup , H. J. Kimble

We investigate the second-order photon correlation function in cavity-magnon systems, focusing on ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic cavities within the ultrastrong coupling regime, and extending beyond the rotating-wave approximation. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Vemund Falch , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We observe the unconventional photon blockade effect in quantum dot cavity QED, which, in contrast to conventional photon blockade, operates in the weak coupling regime. A single quantum dot transition is simultaneously coupled to two…

Photon correlations, as measured by Glauber's $n$-th order coherence functions $g^{(n)}$, are highly sought to be minimized and/or maximized. In systems that are coherently driven, so-called blockades can give rise to strong correlations…

We study the full field and frequency filtered output photon statistics of a resonator in thermal equilibrium with a bath and containing an arbitrarily large quartic nonlinearity. According to the general theory of photodetection, we derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Alessandro Ridolfo , Elena del Valle , Michael J. Hartmann

It is shown that non-centrosymmetric materials with bulk second-order nonlinear susceptibility can be used to generate strongly antibunched radiation at an arbitrary wavelength, solely determined by the resonant behavior of suitably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Dario Gerace , Vincenzo Savona

In this work, we present a field-theoretic model of strongly coupled photonic molecules composed of interacting dielectric cavities in a closed, perfect-electric-conductor domain. Within this setting, we treat the resulting inter-mode…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-17 Kevin C. Smith , Austin G. Nixon , David J. Masiello

There exists a growing interest in the properties of the light generated by hybrid systems involving a mesoscopic number of emitters as a means of providing macroscopic quantum light sources. In this work, the quantum correlations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 R. Sáez-Blázquez , J. Feist , F. J. García-Vidal , A. I. Fernández-Domínguez

Quantum correlation of photons based on quantum interference, such as unconventional photon blockade (UPB), has been extensively studied for realizing single-photon sources in weak nonlinear regime. However, how to use this effect for other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Zi-Qiang Yin , Zhi-Hao Liu , Jian Tang , Hui Jing , Xun-Wei Xu

Demonstrating and exploiting the quantum nature of larger, more macroscopic mechanical objects would help us to directly investigate the limitations of quantum-based measurements and quantum information protocols, as well as test long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-16 J. D. Teufel , D. Li , M. S. Allman , K. Cicak , A. J. Sirois , J. D. Whittaker , R. W. Simmonds

The ultrastrong light-matter interaction regime was investigated in metallic and superconducting complementary split ring resonators coupled to the cyclotron transition of two dimensional electron gases. The sub-wavelength light confinement…

When the coupling rate between two quantum systems becomes as large as their characteristic frequencies, it induces dramatic effects on their dynamics and even on the nature of their ground state. The case of a qubit coupled to a harmonic…