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Inspired by the recent experiment of Hamsen et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133604 (2017)], which demonstrated two-photon blockade in a driven nonlinear system (composed of a harmonic cavity with a driven atom), we show that two-photon…

The observation of quantized nanomechanical oscillations by detecting femtometer-scale displacements is a significant challenge for experimentalists. We propose that phonon blockade can serve as a signature of quantum behavior in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yu-xi Liu , Adam Miranowicz , Y. B. Gao , J. Bajer , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

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,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Lijuan Dong , Aanal Jayesh Shah , Peter Kirton , Hadiseh Alaeian , Simone Felicetti

We propose how to achieve strong phonon blockade (PB) in a hybrid spin-mechanical system in the weak-coupling regime. We demonstrate the implementation of magnetically-induced two-phonon interactions between a mechanical cantilever…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Yan Wang , Jin-Lei Wu , Jin-Xuan Han , Yan Xia , Yong-Yuan Jiang , Jie Song

In the recent publications [Phys. Rev. A 92,023838 (2015)], the unconventional photon blockade are studied in a two-mode-second-order-nonlinear system with nonlinear coupling between the low frequency and high frequency modes. In this…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-17 Hongyu Lin , Xiaoqian Wang , Zhuo Yu , Zhihai Yao

We study the photon blockade effect in a coupled cavity system, which is formed by a linear cavity coupled to a Kerr-type nonlinear cavity via a photon-hopping interaction. We explain the physical phenomenon from the viewpoint of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Fen Zou , Deng-Gao Lai , Jie-Qiao Liao

A two-level system interacting with a cavity field is an important model for investigating the photon blockade (PB) effect. Most work on this topic has been based on the assumption that the atomic transition frequency is resonant with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Xinyun Liang , Zhenglu Duan , Qin Guo , Cunjin Liu , Shengguo Guan , Yi Ren

The coupling of resonant light and surface plasmons in metal layer coated optical microcavities results in the formation of hybrid photon-plasmon modes. Here, we comprehensively investigate the hybridization mechanism of photon-plasmon…

Multiphoton blockade provides an efficient way to achieve entangled photon sources and leads to wide applications in modern quantum technologies. Here, we propose a scheme to realize multiphoton blockade by a multi-tone drive. Specifically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Guang-Yu Zhang , Zhi-Hao Liu , Jie-Qiao Liao , Xun-Wei Xu

We propose a novel scheme for realizing single-photon blockade in a weakly driven hybrid cavity optomechanical system consisting of a nonlinear photonic crystal. Sub-Poissonian statistics is realized even when the single-photon…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-09 Bijita Sarma , Amarendra K. Sarma

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

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

We study the generation of strongly correlated photons by coupling an atom to photonic quantum fields in a one-dimensional waveguide. Specifically, we consider a three-level or four-level system for the atom. Photon-photon bound states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-26 Huaixiu Zheng , Daniel J. Gauthier , Harold U. Baranger

Mediated photon-photon interactions are realized in a superconducting coplanar waveguide cavity coupled to a superconducting charge qubit. These non-resonant interactions blockade the transmission of photons through the cavity. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. J. Hoffman , S. J. Srinivasan , S. Schmidt , L. Spietz , J. Aumentado , H. E. Türeci , A. A. Houck

We study the photon blockade at exceptional points for a non-Hermitian optomechanical system coupled to the driven whispering-gallery-mode microresonator with two nanoparticles under the weak optomechanical coupling approximation, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 J. Y. Sun , H. Z. Shen

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

We have theoretically investigated an optomechanical system and presented the scenario of significantly enhanced bipartite photon-phonon entanglement for two qubits coupled to the single mode of the cavity. And results are compared with the…

Photon blockade (PB) is a quantum effect in strongly nonlinear systems where a single photon prevents the system from being excited to a higher level, generating anti-bunched light fields. It enables the generation of single-photon sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Weiyi An , Jie Zhu

Photon blockade is vital for single-photon generation, but current schemes with conventional and unconventional photon blockade face critical limitations like the purity-brightness trade-off, hindering the generation of high-performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Sheng Zhao , Peng-Bo Li

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