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Quantum emitters coupled to nanophotonic structures are an excellent platform for controllable single-photon scattering. The tunable light-matter interaction enables the construction of a single-photon switch -- a device that can route a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mateusz Duda , Nicholas J. Martin , Eve O. Mills , Luke R. Wilson , Pieter Kok

We study single-photon band structure in a one-dimensional (1D) coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) which chirally couples to an array of two-level quantum emitters (QEs). The chiral interaction between the resonator mode and the QE…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Jiangshan Tang , Wei Nie , Lei Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Xin Su , Yanqing Lu , Franco Nori , Keyu Xia

We propose a single-photon router using a single atom with an inversion center coupled to quantum multichannels made of coupled-resonator waveguides. We show that the spontaneous emission of the atom can direct single photons from one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Jing Lu , Lan Zhou , Le-man Kuang , Franco Nori

Quantum optics with giant atoms has provided a new paradigm to study photon scatterings. In this work, we investigate the nontrivial single-photon scattering properties of giant atoms being an effective platform to realize nonreciprocal and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Yao-Tong Chen , Lei Du , Lingzhen Guo , Zhihai Wang , Yan Zhang , Yong Li , Jin-Hui Wu

We propose to construct a nonreciprocal single-photon frequency converter via multiple semi-infinite coupled-resonator waveguides (CRWs). We first demonstrate that the frequency of a single photon can be converted nonreciprocally through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Xun-Wei Xu , Ai-Xi Chen , Yong Li , Yu-xi Liu

Engineering deterministic photonic gates with simple resources is one of the long-standing challenges in photonic quantum computing. Here, we design a passive conditional gate between co-propagating photons using an array of only two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tomás Levy-Yeyati , Carlos Vega , Tomás Ramos , Alejandro González-Tudela

We propose an experimentally accessible single-photon routing scheme using a $\bigtriangleup$-type three-level atom embedded in quantum multi-channels composed of coupled-resonator waveguides. Via the on-demand classical field applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Lan Zhou , Li-Ping Yang , Yong Li , C. P. Sun

Routing of photon play a key role in optical communication networks and quantum networks. Although the quantum routing of signals has been investigated in various systems both in theory and experiment, the general form of quantum routing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-20 Peng-Cheng Ma , Jian-Qi Zhang , Yin Xiao , Mang Feng , Zhi-Ming Zhang

Two interacting Rydberg atoms coupled to a waveguide realize a giant-atom platform that exhibits the controllable (phase-dependent) chirality where the direction of nonreciprocal photon scattering can be switched on demand, e.g., by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Yao-Tong Chen , Lei Du , Zhihai Wang , M. Artoni , G. C. La Rocca , Jin-Hui Wu

We propose a new scheme for quantum computation using flying qubits--propagating photons in a one-dimensional waveguide--interacting with matter qubits. Photon-photon interactions are mediated by the coupling to a three- or four-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Huaixiu Zheng , Daniel J. Gauthier , Harold U. Baranger

We analyze coherent transport of photons, which propagate in a one-dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide (CRW) and are scattered by a controllable two-level system located inside the CRW. Our approach, which uses discrete coordinates,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Lan Zhou , Z. R. Gong , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

In this work, we utilize a two-level atom and a ${\Lambda}$-type atom to link two identical waveguides, subsequently extending the model to a giant-atom configuration. Our analytical solutions and numerical simulations demonstrate that this…

Chiral interactions enable directional control of quantum light, providing new routes for nonreciprocal photon dynamics. While previous studies focused on single photon regimes, this work explores the non-Markovian multiphoton regime in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yue Chang

A scheme of single-photon multi-port router is put forward by coupling two optomechanical cavities with waveguides. It is shown that the coupled two optomechanical cavities can exhibit photon blockade effect, which is generated from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Xun Li , Wen-Zhao Zhang , Ling Zhou

The ability to engineer photon emission and photon scattering is at the heart of modern photonics applications ranging from light harvesting, through novel compact light sources, to quantum-information processing based on single photons.…

Controllable single-photon routing plays an important role in quantum networks. We investigate single-photon scattering in two one-dimensional (1D) waveguides by a three-level emitter with a cascade configuration, which is a dipole coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Yike Luo , Ya Yang , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

Single-photon transport in non-ideal chiral photon-atom interaction structures generally contains information backflow and thus limits the capabilities to transfer information between distant emitters in cascaded quantum networks. Here, in…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Cong-Hua Yan , Ming Li , Xin-Biao Xu , Yan-Lei Zhang , Hao Yuan , Chang-Ling Zou

Quadratic light-matter interactions are nonlinear couplings such that quantum emitters interact with photonic or phononic modes exclusively via the exchange of excitation pairs. Implementable with atomic and solid-state systems, these…

By coupling a $\Lambda$-type quantum emitter to a chiral waveguide, in which the polarization of a photon is locked to its propagation direction, we propose a controllable photon-emitter interface for quantum networks. We show that this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Tao Li , Adam Miranowicz , Xuedong Hu , Keyu Xia , Franco Nori

We describe an approach to achieve near-perfect unidirectional light-matter coupling to an effective quantum emitter that is formed by a subwavelength array of atoms in the Rydberg-blockade regime. The nonlinear reflection and transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Lida Zhang , Fan Yang , Klaus Mølmer , Thomas Pohl