Fast optomechanical photon blockade
The photon blockade effect is commonly exploited in the development of single-photon sources. While the photon blockade effect could be used to prepare high-fidelity single-photon states in idealized regimes, practical implementations in optomechanical systems suffer from an interplay of competing p...
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| author | Yuxun Ling Sofia Qvarfort Florian Mintert |
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| description | The photon blockade effect is commonly exploited in the development of single-photon sources. While the photon blockade effect could be used to prepare high-fidelity single-photon states in idealized regimes, practical implementations in optomechanical systems suffer from an interplay of competing processes. Here we derive a control scheme that exploits destructive interference of Fock state amplitudes of more than one photon. The resulting preparation time for photon-blockaded quantum states is limited only by the optomechanical interaction strength and can thus be orders of magnitude shorter than in existing schemes that achieve photon blockade in the steady state. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-72636b56574e42849821798386d435842024-04-12T17:31:31ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPhysical Review Research2643-15642023-06-015202314810.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023148Fast optomechanical photon blockadeYuxun LingSofia QvarfortFlorian MintertThe photon blockade effect is commonly exploited in the development of single-photon sources. While the photon blockade effect could be used to prepare high-fidelity single-photon states in idealized regimes, practical implementations in optomechanical systems suffer from an interplay of competing processes. Here we derive a control scheme that exploits destructive interference of Fock state amplitudes of more than one photon. The resulting preparation time for photon-blockaded quantum states is limited only by the optomechanical interaction strength and can thus be orders of magnitude shorter than in existing schemes that achieve photon blockade in the steady state.http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023148 |
| spellingShingle | Yuxun Ling Sofia Qvarfort Florian Mintert Fast optomechanical photon blockade Physical Review Research |
| title | Fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| title_full | Fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| title_fullStr | Fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| title_short | Fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| title_sort | fast optomechanical photon blockade |
| url | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.023148 |
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