Towards High-Brightness Perfect Photon Blockade
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02314v1
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:56:19 GMT
- Title: Towards High-Brightness Perfect Photon Blockade
- Abstract summary: Single-photon sources with high single-photon purity and high brightness are key elements of many future quantum technologies.<n>We show that near-ideal purity and near-ideal brightness can be simultaneously achieved in an extended nondegenerate two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model.<n>Our proposed scheme overcomes the outstanding challenge and offers a promising pathway toward realizing ideal single-photon sources.
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- Abstract: Single-photon sources with high single-photon purity and high brightness are key elements of many future quantum technologies. While photon blockade (PB) is widely exploited in the development of such sources, achieving the coexistence of high purity and high brightness remains a long-standing challenge. Here, we identify a novel mechanism for high-brightness PB and demonstrate that near-ideal purity and near-ideal brightness can be simultaneously achieved in an extended nondegenerate two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with two-body and three-body interactions. This mechanism is underpinned by a distinctive energy-level structure arising from the combined action of the two interactions. The energy levels in the multi-excitation manifold essentially retain a harmonic ladder of degenerate doublets, whereas in the single-excitation subspace the doublet degeneracy is lifted, with a finite splitting between the two levels. Consequently, when one bosonic mode is driven by a coherent continuous-wave pump, the former degeneracy enables the other bosonic mode to exhibit near-perfect PB even in the strong driving regime, while the latter splitting allows the mean photon number of that mode to approach unity. Our proposed scheme overcomes the outstanding challenge and offers a promising pathway toward realizing ideal single-photon sources.
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