Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain
Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multiphoton states in weakly nonlinear optical resonators via the destructive interference of different excitation pathways. It has been studied in a pair of coupled nonlinear resonators and other few-mode systems. Here, we show that unconv...
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| author | Wang, You Verstraelen, W. Zhang, Baile Liew, Timothy Chi Hin Chong, Yidong |
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| description | Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multiphoton states in weakly nonlinear optical resonators via the destructive interference of different excitation pathways. It has been studied in a pair of coupled nonlinear resonators and other few-mode systems. Here, we show that unconventional photon blockade can be greatly enhanced in a chain of coupled resonators. The strength of the nonlinearity in each resonator needed to achieve unconventional photon blockade is suppressed exponentially with lattice size. The analytic derivation, based on a weak drive approximation, is validated by wave function Monte Carlo simulations. These findings show that customized lattices of coupled resonators can be powerful tools for controlling multiphoton quantum states. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1570822023-02-28T20:06:23Z Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain Wang, You Verstraelen, W. Zhang, Baile Liew, Timothy Chi Hin Chong, Yidong School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies (CDPT) MajuLab Science::Physics Science::Physics::Optics and light Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multiphoton states in weakly nonlinear optical resonators via the destructive interference of different excitation pathways. It has been studied in a pair of coupled nonlinear resonators and other few-mode systems. Here, we show that unconventional photon blockade can be greatly enhanced in a chain of coupled resonators. The strength of the nonlinearity in each resonator needed to achieve unconventional photon blockade is suppressed exponentially with lattice size. The analytic derivation, based on a weak drive approximation, is validated by wave function Monte Carlo simulations. These findings show that customized lattices of coupled resonators can be powerful tools for controlling multiphoton quantum states. Ministry of Education (MOE) National Research Foundation (NRF) Published version This work was supported by the Singapore MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 3 Grant MOE2016-T3-1- 006, Tier 2 Grant MOE2019-T2-1-004, and Tier 1 Grant RG148/20, and by the National Research Foundation Competitive Research Programs NRF-CRP23-2019-0005 and NRF-CRP23-2019-0007. 2022-05-06T04:29:02Z 2022-05-06T04:29:02Z 2021 Journal Article Wang, Y., Verstraelen, W., Zhang, B., Liew, T. C. H. & Chong, Y. (2021). Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain. Physical Review Letters, 127(24), 240402-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.240402 0031-9007 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157082 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.240402 34951803 2-s2.0-85121604806 24 127 240402 en MOE2016-T3-1-006 MOE2019-T2-1-004 RG148/20 NRF-CRP23-2019-0005 NRF-CRP23-2019-0007 Physical Review Letters © 2021 American Physical Society. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Physical Review Letters and is made available with permission of American Physical Society. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Physics Science::Physics::Optics and light Wang, You Verstraelen, W. Zhang, Baile Liew, Timothy Chi Hin Chong, Yidong Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title | Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title_full | Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title_fullStr | Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title_short | Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| title_sort | giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain |
| topic | Science::Physics Science::Physics::Optics and light |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157082 |
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