Giant Enhancement of Unconventional Photon Blockade in a Dimer Chain
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08526v1
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:38:42 GMT
- Title: Giant Enhancement of Unconventional Photon Blockade in a Dimer Chain
- Authors: You Wang, W. Verstraelen, Baile Zhang, Timothy C. H. Liew and Y. D.
Chong
- Abstract summary: Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multi-photon states in weakly nonlinear optical resonators.
We show that unconventional photon blockade can be greatly enhanced in a chain of coupled resonators.
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- Abstract: Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multi-photon
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. Specifically, 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 wavefunction Monte Carlo simulations. These
findings show that customized lattices of coupled resonators can be powerful
tools for controlling multi-photon quantum states.
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