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We present a study of collective multi-photon blockade in coherently driven atoms in a single mode cavity. Considering two atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we show that the two-photon blockade with two-photon anti-bunching, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 C. J. Zhu , Y. P. Yang , G. S. Agarwal

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Dong-Yang Wang , Cheng-Hua Bai , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

We propose a scheme to manipulate strong and nonreciprocal photon blockades in asymmetrical Fabry-Perot cavity with a $\Lambda$-type three-level atom. Utilizing the mechanisms of both conventional and unconventional blockade, the strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Xue-Chen Gao , Xiao-Jie Wu , Cheng-Hua Bai , Shao-Xiong Wu , Chang-shui Yu

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

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

In this note we present some results concerning photon blockade and antibunching in a system consisting of a quantum dot embedded in a microcavity. We give analytic conditions for resonant and non-resonant photon blockade, valid for small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Paolo Schwendimann , Antonio Quattropani

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

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

Unconventional quantum antibunching, arising from quantum interference effects, represents a notable form of quantum correlation that has attracted significant attention for its ability to generate high-quality single-quantum sources. In…

We theoretically study the quantum interference induced photon blockade phenomenon in atom cavity QED system, where the destructive interference between two different transition pathways prohibits the two-photon excitation. Here, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 K. Hou , C. J. Zhu , Y. P. Yang , G. S. Agarwal

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

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

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 Motoaki Bamba , Atac Imamoglu , Iacopo Carusotto , Cristiano Ciuti

We investigate both magnon and photon blockade for an antiferromagnetic insulator coupled to a linearly polarized cavity mode. We focus on the cross-Kerr nonlinearity between the two magnon modes, which can be large in antiferromagnets with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Vemund Falch , Arne Brataas , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

We propose a scheme to achieve magnon (photon) blockade by using magnon squeezing within a cavity magnomechanical system under weak pump driving. Under ideal conditions, we observe a substantial magnon blockade effect, as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 M. Amazioug , D. S. Dutykh , B. Teklu , M. Asjad

We theoretically propose a scheme to realize a $n$-cavity-magnon polariton blockade in a cavity-magnon system by utilizing the Kerr nonlinearity. Cavity-magnon polaritons are hybrid quasiparticles formed by the strong coupling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Zhe-Qi Yang , Xiao-Yu Bi , Zhi-Rong Zhong

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

The conventional photon blockade for high-frequency mode is investigated in a two-mode second-order nonlinear system embedded with a two-level atom. By solving the master equation and calculating the zero-delay-time second-order correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Hongyu Lin , Xiangyi Luo , Hui Yang , Zhihai Yao

We present a theoretical technique for solving the quantum transport problem of a few photons through a one-dimensional, strongly nonlinear waveguide. We specifically consider the situation where the evolution of the optical field is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Mohammad Hafezi , Darrick Chang , Vladimir Gritsev , Eugene Demler , Mikhail Lukin

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Hong Xie , Chang-Geng Liao , Xiao Shang , Zhi-Hua Chen , Xiu-Min Lin