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Cavity quantum electrodynamics, which explores the granularity of light by coupling a resonator to a nonlinear emitter, has played a foundational role in the development of modern quantum information science and technology. In parallel, the…

We investigate photon tunneling in a pair of coupled inverted circular split-ring microwave resonators with four discrete chiral orientations. By varying the spacing between the resonators, we observe strong modulation of the transmission…

Chiral quantum optics is a growing field of research where light-matter interactions become asymmetrically dependent on momentum and spin, offering novel control over photonic and electronic degrees of freedom. Recently, the platforms for…

Quantum computers require technologies that offer both sufficient control over coherent quantum phenomena and minimal spurious interactions with the environment. We show, that photons confined to photonic crystals, and in particular to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Marcelo Franca Santos , Vassilis Yannopapas , Artur Ekert

Optical nanocavities for coherent interfaces usually have their electric field maximum at the center point, which normally benefits interactions with small local quantum emitters. Here, we propose a partial thickness modulation on 2D slab…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-25 Chenjiang Qian , Xin Xie , Jingnan Yang , Xiulai Xu

We demonstrate electrically tunable, spin-dependent, directional coupling of single photons by embedding quantum dots (QDs) in a waveguide-coupled nanocavity. The directional behavior arises from direction-dependent interference between two…

Quantum electrodynamics of excitons in a cavity is shown to be relevant to quantum operations. We present a theory of an integrable solid-state quantum controlled-phase gate for generating entanglement of two photons using a coupled…

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Chiral emission, where the handedness of a transition dipole determines the direction in which a photon is emitted, has recently been observed from atoms and quantum dots coupled to nanophotonic waveguides. Here, we consider the case of…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-06 Diego Martín-Cano , Harald R. Haakh , Nir Rotenberg

We study light-matter interactions in the bulk of a two-dimensional photonic lattice system, where photons are subject to the combined effect of a synthetic magnetic field and an orthogonal synthetic electric field. In this configuration,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Daniele De Bernardis , Francesco Piccioli , Peter Rabl , Iacopo Carusotto

We present the design of a chiral photonic quantum link, where distant atoms interact by exchanging photons propagating in a single direction in free-space. This is achieved by coupling each atom in a laser-assisted process to an atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Grankin , P. O. Guimond , D. V. Vasilyev , B. Vermersch , P. Zoller

Local control of the generation and interaction of indistinguishable single photons is a key requirement for photonic quantum networks. Waveguide-based architectures, in which embedded quantum emitters act as both highly coherent single…

We design photonic crystal waveguides with efficient chiral light--matter interfaces that can be integrated with solid-state quantum emitters. By using glide-plane-symmetric waveguides, we show that chiral light-matter interaction can exist…

The rapidly developing and converging fields of polaritonic chemistry and quantum optics necessitate a unified approach to predict strongly-correlated light-matter interactions with atomic-scale resolution. Combining concepts from both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

By coupling a $\Lambda$-type quantum emitter to a chiral waveguide, in which the polarization of a photon is locked to its propagation direction, we propose a controllable photon-emitter interface for quantum networks. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Tao Li , Adam Miranowicz , Xuedong Hu , Keyu Xia , Franco Nori

Photonic crystals provide an extremely powerful toolset for manipulation of optical dispersion and density of states, and have thus been employed for applications from photon generation to quantum sensing with NVs and atoms. The unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Yanbing Liu , Andrew A. Houck

Architectures based on waveguide quantum electrodynamics have emerged as promising candidates for quantum networks. In this paper, we analyze the propagation of single-photons in disordered many-atom waveguides. We pay special attention to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Imran M. Mirza , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

Nanostructures that feature nonreciprocal light transmission are highly desirable building blocks for realizing photonic integrated circuits. Here, a simple and ultra-compact photonic-crystal structure, where a waveguide is coupled to a…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-11 Yi Yu , Yaohui Chen , Hao Hu , Weiqi Xue , Kresten Yvind , Jesper Mørk

Controlling photon emission by single quantum emitters with nanostructures is crucial for scalable on-chip quantum information processing. Nowadays nanoresonators can affect the lifetime of emitters and ultimately induce strong coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 B. le Feber , N. Rotenberg , L. Kuipers

We theoretically demonstrate direction-dependent polarization conversion efficiency, yielding unidirectional light transmission, through a two-layer nanostructure by using the angular spectrum representation of optical near-fields. The…

A chiral photonic interface is a quantum system that has different probabilities for emitting photons to the left and right. An on-chip compatible chiral interface is attractive for both fundamental studies of light-matter interactions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Yu-Xiang Zhang , Carles R. i Carceller , Morten Kjaergaard , Anders S. Sørensen