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We show that the saturation of a multiphoton transition is accompanied by a gradual collapse of quantum multimodality in the strong-coupling limit of the weakly driven Jaynes-Cummings (JC) model. By means of a perturbative method, we…
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We demonstrate unconventional photon blockade in a symmetric Kerr dimer driven with equal-amplitude fields at a $90^\circ$ phase difference. The minimum inter-cavity coupling is $J_{\min} = \gamma/4$ at a Kerr nonlinearity $U \ll \gamma$…
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In a recent work [T. C. H. Liew and V. Savona, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf104}, 183601 (2010)] it was numerically shown that in a photonic 'molecule' consisting of two coupled cavities, near-resonant coherent excitation could give rise to strong…
Photon blockade is an effective way to generate single photon, which is of great significance in quantum state preparation and quantum information processing. Here we investigate the statistical properties of photons in a double-cavity…
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Quantum control of phonons has being become a focus of attention for developing quantum technologies. Here, we propose a proposal to realize phonon blockade in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system, where a strong nonlinear…
Analogous to Coulomb blockade for electrons, photon blockade is a key quantum optical effect in which the presence of one photon prevents the transmission of subsequent ones through a nonlinear medium. Beyond its fundamental interest,…
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We study the dynamics of a single control atom and an atomic sample interacting with a nonresonant cavity mode. The control atom is driven by an auxiliary classical field. Under certain conditions, the coherent energy exchange between the…
We study the effects of parity-time(PT)-symmetry on the photon blockade and distinguish the different blockade mechanisms in a double-cavity optomechanical system. By studying the light statistics of the system, we find the completely…