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The realization of optical non-reciprocity is crucial for many device applications, and also of fundamental importance for manipulating and protecting the photons with desired time-reversal symmetry. Recently, various new mechanisms of…

Nonclassical light sources, such as correlated photon-pairs, play an important role in quantum optics and quantum information processing systems. This study proposes a process to generate antibunched photon-pairs in a nondegenerate optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yi Ren , Shouhui Duan , Wenzhi Xie , Yongkang Shao , Zhenglu Duan

Optical non-reciprocity is a fundamental phenomenon in photonics. It is crucial for developing devices that rely on directional signal control, such as optical isolators and circulators. However, most research in this field has focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Yunlong Xue , Zhengyang Bai

We propose an experimentally realizable nonreciprocal magnonic device at the single-magnon level by exploiting magnon blockade in a magnon-based hybrid system. The coherent qubit-magnon coupling, mediated by virtual photons in a microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-09 Yimin Wang , Wei Xiong , Zhiyong Xu , Guo-Qiang Zhang , J. Q. You

We propose a spinning nonlinear resonator as an experimentally accessible platform to achieve nonreciprocal control of optical solitons. Nonreciprocity here results from the relativistic Sagnac-Fizeau optical drag effect, which is different…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-02 Baijun Li , Şahin. K. Özdemir , Xun-Wei Xu , Lin Zhang , Le-Man Kuang , Hui Jing

We study the unconventional photon blockade, recently proposed for a coupled-cavity system, in presence of input and output quantum fields. Mixing of the input or output channels still allows strong photon antibunching of the output field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 H. Flayac , V. Savona

Molecular cavity optomechanical systems, featuring ultrahigh vibrational frequencies and strong light-matter interactions, hold significant promise for advancing applications in quantum science and technology. Specifically, by introducing…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Jian Tang , Baijun Li , Bin Yin , Tian-Xiang Lu , Ran Huang , Franco Nori , Hui Jing

Nonreciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, are crucial components for photonic systems. In this article we review theoretical and experimental progress towards developing nonreciprocal photonic devices based on dynamic…

We analyze the photon correlations in an optomechanical system containing two nonlinear optical modes and one mechanical mode which are coupled via a three-mode mixing. Under a weak driving condition, we determine the optimal conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bijita Sarma , Amarendra K. Sarma

Nonreciprocal devices that allow the light propagation in only one direction are indispensable in photonic circuits and emerging quantum technologies. Contemporary optical isolators and circulators, however, require large size or strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Shingo Toyoda , Manfred Fiebig , Taka-hisa Arima , Yoshinori Tokura , Naoki Ogawa

We investigate the single-photon blockade (1PB) in the quasichiral regime of atom-photon interaction that mediates via dissipative environment, where the effective atom-photon interaction is asymmetrical but achiral. The synthetic magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-10 Yu-Wei Lu , Jing-Feng Liu , Runhua Li , Haishu Tan , Yanxiong Wu , Yongyao Li

We analyze the single-photon band structure and the transport of a single photon in a one-dimensional coupled-spinning-resonator chain. The time-reversal symmetry of the resonators chain is broken by the spinning of the resonators, instead…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Jing Li , Ya Yang , Xun Wei Xu , Jing Lu , Hui Jing , Lan Zhou

We study the behaviour of the second-order correlation function in a double cavity optomechanical system and a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA) is placed in each cavity. The first cavity is additionally driven by a weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 M. Amazioug , M. Daoud , S. K. Singh , M. Asjad

Non-reciprocal devices are of increasing interest in quantum information technologies. This paper examines whether the presence of a non-reciprocal device in an optical channel is detectable by the communicating parties. We find that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 James E Troupe , Antia Lamas-Linares

We investigate perfect optical nonreciprocal transmission in a hybrid optomechanical system that incorporates an atomic ensemble. By introducing complex coupling strengths between the atomic ensemble and a mechanical oscillator,…

Quantum nonreciprocity at few-photon level typically requires strong symmetry breaking, posing significant experimental challenges. Here we demonstrate that phase-controlled quantum interference can amplify weak chirality into giant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Jing Tang , Yuangang Deng

Closed-form expressions for the average amplitude of the optical field in optomechanical systems are obtained, in which, in addition to the linear interaction, quadratic and cubic interactions of the vibrational mode of the mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 A. P. Saiko , G. A. Rusetsky , S. A. Markevich , R. Fedaruk

Universal photon blockade in a two-mode Jaynes-Cummings model incorporating third-order Kerr nonlinearity is demonstrated with a single two-level atom coupled to a waveguide microcavity. Realization of this universal photon blockade is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Guohao Chang , Hunduz Halemjan , Shangyun Liu , Raziya Anwar , Ahmad Abliz

We theoretically investigate the quantum-interference-induced photon blockade effect in a single two-level atom-cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system with degenerate parametric amplification. The analytical calculations reveal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Madan Mohan Mahana , Sanket Das , Tarak Nath Dey

Optical non-reciprocity, which breaks the symmetry between forward and backward propagating optical waves, has become vital in photonic systems and enables many key devices, such as optical isolators, circulators and optical routers. Most…