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We propose a novel scheme for high fidelity photonic controlled phase gates using Rydberg blockade in an ensemble of atoms in an optical cavity. The gate operation is obtained by first storing a photonic pulse in the ensemble and then…

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

The development of many scalable quantum technologies requires single-photon nonlinearity, such as single-photon blockade, in solid-state systems. Recently, it has been shown that single-photon Fock states can, in principle, be…

We propose how to achieve quantum nonreciprocity via unconventional photon blockade (UPB) in a compound device consisting of an optical harmonic resonator and a spinning optomechanical resonator. We show that, even with an extremely weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Baijun Li , Ran Huang , Xun-Wei Xu , Adam Miranowicz , Hui Jing

Photon blockade, in analogy to Coulomb's or phonon blockades, is a phenomenon when a single photon in a nonlinear cavity blocks the transmission of a second photon. This effect can occur in Kerr-type systems driven by a laser due to strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Adam Miranowicz , Malgorzata Paprzycka , Yu-xi Liu , Jiri Bajer , Franco Nori

We present a scheme for coherently manipulating quantum states of photons by incorporating multiple photonic modes in a system with long-range interactions. The presence of nonlocal photon-photon interactions destroys the energy or momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Fan Yang , Yong-Chun Liu , Li You

Achieving the regime of single-photon nonlinearities in photonic devices just exploiting the intrinsic high-order susceptibilities of conventional materials would open the door to practical semiconductor-based quantum photonic technologies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Davide Nigro , Marco Clementi , Camille Sophie Brès , Marco Liscidini , Dario Gerace

Photon statistics in a weakly driven optomechanical photonic crystal cavity, with Kerr-type nonlinearity, is analyzed both analytically and numerically. Single-photon blockade effect is demonstrated via calculations of the zero-time-delay…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-23 Bijita Sarma , Amarendra K. Sarma

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

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

The research article studies the unconventional photon blockade effect in a hybrid optomechanical system with an embedded spin-triplet state. The interaction between the optomechanical system and the spin state generates new transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Yao Dong , Jing-jing Wang , Guo-Feng Zhang

We propose how to achieve strong photon antibunching effect in a cavity-QED system coupled with two Rydberg-Rydberg interaction atoms. Via calculating the equal time second order correlation function g(2)(0), we find that the unconventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tong Huang , Lei Tan

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

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 study the quantum interference between different weak signals in a three-port optomechanical system, which is achieved by coupling three cavity modes to the same mechanical mode. If one cavity serves as a control port and is perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Lei Du , Yao-Tong Chen , Jin-Hui Wu , Yong Li

Here, we explore the combination of sub-wavelength, two-dimensional atomic arrays and Rydberg interactions as a powerful platform to realize strong, coherent interactions between individual photons with high fidelity. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Mariona Moreno-Cardoner , Daniel Goncalves , Darrick E. Chang

The atom-photon entanglement is studied in a three-level lambda-type closed-loop atomic system in multi-photon resonance condition and beyond it. It is shown that the von Neumann entropy in such a system is phase dependent, and it can be…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-01-09 Ali Mortezapour , Zeinab Kordi , Mohammad Mahmoudi

We propose a mechanism to engineer an $n$-photon blockade in a nonlinear cavity with an $n$-photon parametric drive $\lambda(\hat{a}^{\dag n}+\hat{a}^n)$. When an $n$-photon-excitation resonance condition is satisfied, the presence of n…

A major trend within the field of cavity QED is to boost the interaction strength between the cavity field and the atomic internal degrees of freedom of the trapped atom by decreasing the mode volume of the cavity. In such systems, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Lukas Neumeier , Darrick E. Chang

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Dong-Yang Wang , Cheng-Hua Bai , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang