Tunable single-photon frequency converter in a waveguide with a giant V-type atom
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10243v1
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:41:07 GMT
- Title: Tunable single-photon frequency converter in a waveguide with a giant V-type atom
- Authors: Hongzheng Wu, Ge Sun, Jing Lu, Lan Zhou,
- Abstract summary: We study the single-photon scattering in a one-dimensional (1D) waveguide coupled to one transition of a $V$-type giant atom (GA)<n>The inelastic scattering of single photons by the GA realizes the single-photon frequency conversion.
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- Abstract: We study the single-photon scattering in a one-dimensional (1D) waveguide coupled to one transition of a $V$-type giant atom (GA), whose other transition is coherently driven by an classical field. The inelastic scattering of single photons by the GA realizes the single-photon frequency conversion. By applying the Lippmann-Schwinger equation, the scattering coefficients for single photons incident from different directions are obtained, which present different scattering spectra in the Markovian and the non-Markovian regimes. The conversion contrast characterizing the nonreciprocity is also analyzed in both regimes. It is found that the probability of the frequency up- or down-conversion vanishes as long as the emission from either transition pathways for single photons is suppressed, but it is enhanced and even reach unity by introducing the nonreciprocity. It is the quantum self-interference induced by the scale of this two-legged GA and the phase difference between the GA-waveguide couplings that tune the probability of the frequency up- or down-conversion.
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