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It has been shown that perfect photon absorption can occur in the linear excitation regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED), in which photons from two identical light fields coupled into two ends of the cavity are completely…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-15 G. S. Agarwal , Ke Di , Liyong Wang , Yifu Zhu

Waveguide cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with atomic mirrors is a growing research area of quantum optics and can be applied to quantum information processing. We here study the photon statistics of output fields from a waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yang Xue , Yue Chang , Tao Shi , Yu-xi Liu

Chiral light matter interaction enables new fundamental researches and applications of light. The interaction has traditionally faced challenges in low directionality and efficiency based on spin orbit interaction of light in microscopic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Liang Fang , Haozhi Luo , Xiaoping Cao , Shuang Zheng , Xinlun Cai , Jian Wang

We study light-matter interactions in the bulk of a two-dimensional photonic lattice system, where photons are subject to the combined effect of a synthetic magnetic field and an orthogonal synthetic electric field. In this configuration,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Daniele De Bernardis , Francesco Piccioli , Peter Rabl , Iacopo Carusotto

Chiral coupling, which allows directional interactions between quantum dots (QDs) and photonic crystal waveguide modes, holds promise for enhancing the functionality of quantum photonic integrated circuits. Elliptical polarizations of QD…

To go beyond quantum optics in free-space setups, atom-light interfaces with structured photonic environments are often employed to realize unconventional quantum electrodynamics (QED) phenomena. However, when employed as quantum buses,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Xin Wang , Huai-Bing Zhu , Tao Liu , Franco Nori

The implementation of quantum routers is an important and desired task in quantum information science, since quantum routers are important components of quantum networks. Here, we propose a scheme for implementing single-photon routers in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Shi-Yu Liu , Lin-Lin Jiang , Hai Zhu , Jie-Qiao Liao , Jin-Feng Huang

We theoretically propose a scheme for photon blockade in a cavity quantum electrodynamical system consisting of an N-type atomic medium interacting with a single-mode Fabry-Perot cavity. In contrast to inefficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Xin Su , Jiang-Shan Tang , Keyu Xia

We employ a cascaded system approach to numerically simulate the interaction of photon pulses with a two-level scatterer in a chiral waveguide QED setup. It is possible to expand any pure state of two photons as a superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-27 Mads Middelhede Lund , Fan Yang , Klaus Mølmer

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

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

We propose an in-situ tunable chiral quantum system, composed of a quantum emitter coupled to a waveguide based on the Rice-Mele model (where we alternate both the on-site potentials and tunnel couplings between sites in the waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Prasanna Pakkiam , N. Pradeep Kumar , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Arkady Fedorov

One dimensional confinement in waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) plays a crucial role to enhance light-matter interactions and to induce a strong quantum nonlinear optical response. In two or higher dimensional settings, this response…

The controlled generation of nonclassical light beyond single photons remains a central challenge in quantum optics, due to the difficulty of enhancing multiphoton processes while suppressing lower-order excitations. Here we propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Jing Tang , Yuangang Deng

Emitter ensembles interact collectively with the radiation field. In the case of a one-dimensional array of atoms near a nanofiber, this collective light-matter interaction does not only lead to an increased photon coupling to the guided…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Ryan Jones , Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Ben Lang , Igor Lesanovsky , Beatriz Olmos

We investigate the entanglement dynamics of two two-level emitters (qubits) mediated by a semiinfinite, one-dimensional (1D) photonic waveguide. The coupling of each qubit to the waveguide is chiral, which depends on the propagation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Bin Zhang , Sujian You , Mei Lu

Single-photon sources with high single-photon purity and high brightness are key elements of many future quantum technologies. While photon blockade (PB) is widely exploited in the development of such sources, achieving the coexistence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Zhi-Guang Lu , Xin-You Lü

Photon blockade is a dynamical quantum-nonlinear effect that occurs in driven systems with an anharmonic excitation ladder. For a single atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we show that driving the atom gives a decisively larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Christoph Hamsen , Karl Nicolas Tolazzi , Tatjana Wilk , Gerhard Rempe

We propose an experimental scheme to implement a strong photon blockade with a single quantum dot coupled to a nanocavity. The photon blockade effect can be tremendously enhanced by driving the cavity and the quantum dot simultaneously with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Jing Tang , Weidong Geng , Xiulai Xu

There is generally no obvious evidence in any direct relation between photon blockade and atomic coherence. Here instead of only illustrating the photon statistics, we show an interesting relation between the steady-state photon blockade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Yang Zhang , Jun Zhang , Chang-shui Yu