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n-photon blockade with an n-photon parametric drive

Zhou, Yan Hui
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Minganti, Fabrizio  
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Qin, Wei
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November 22, 2021
Physical Review A

We propose a mechanism to engineer an n-photon blockade in a nonlinear cavity with an n-photon parametric drive lambda(adagger n + an). When an n-photon-excitation resonance condition is satisfied, the presence of n photons in the cavity suppresses the absorption of the subsequent photons. To confirm the validity of this proposal, we study the n-photon blockade in an atom-cavity system, a Kerr-nonlinear resonator, and two-coupled Kerrnonlinear resonators. Our results demonstrate that n-photon bunching and (n + 1 )-photon antibunching can be simultaneously obtained in these systems. This effect is due both to the anharmonic energy ladder and to the nature of the n-photon drive. To show the importance of the drive, we compare the results of the n-photon drive with a coherent (one-photon) drive, proving the enhancement of antibunching in the parametric-drive case. This proposal is general and can be applied to realize the n-photon blockade in other nonlinear systems.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053718
Web of Science ID

WOS:000730134900006

Author(s)
Zhou, Yan Hui
Minganti, Fabrizio  
Qin, Wei
Wu, Qi-Cheng
Zhao, Jun-Long
Fang, Yu-Liang
Nori, Franco
Yang, Chui-Ping
Date Issued

2021-11-22

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review A
Volume

104

Issue

5

Article Number

053718

Subjects

Optics

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Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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Physics

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REVIEWED

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