Higher-order spatial photon interference versus dipole blockade effect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18269v1
• Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:52:09 GMT
• Title: Higher-order spatial photon interference versus dipole blockade effect
• Authors: Arthur Rotari, Mihai A. Macovei,
• Abstract summary: The steady-state quantum dynamics of three dipole-dipole coupled two-level emitters is investigated.<n>We have demonstrated that this incoherently excited system spontaneously generates streams of single photons possessing sub-Poissonian photon statistics.<n>The quantum photon features are due to the interaction's nature of the few symmetrically arranged two-level emitters with the surrounding thermal reservoir.
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• Abstract: The steady-state quantum dynamics of three dipole-dipole coupled two-level emitters, fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle, and interacting via the environmental thermostat is investigated. We have analytically obtained the populations of the involved three-atom cooperative states as well as of the second- and third-order spatial photon correlation functions of the light scattered by the few-qubit sample. As a consequence, we have demonstrated that this incoherently excited system spontaneously generates streams of single photons possessing sub-Poissonian photon statistics. In analogy to the dipole-dipole blockade, one may expect that at smaller inter particle distances, compared to the photon emission wavelength, the reported phenomenon has the same origin. However, we have shown that the quantum photon features are due to the interaction's nature of the few symmetrically arranged two-level emitters with the surrounding thermal reservoir. Respectively, at larger atomic intervals the effect occurs because of high-order spatial interference phenomena. Sub-wavelength interference fringes can be observed too, via measurements of spatial higher-order photon correlation functions.

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