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State-dependent photon blockade via quantum-reservoir engineering

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posted on 2015-12-17, 12:21 authored by Adam Miranowicz, J. Bajer, Małgorzata Paprzycka, Yu-xi Liu, Alexandre ZagoskinAlexandre Zagoskin, Franco Nori
An arbitrary initial state of an optical or microwave field in a lossy driven nonlinear cavity can be changed into a partially incoherent superposition of only the vacuum and the single-photon states. This effect is known as single-photon blockade, which is usually analyzed for a Kerr-type nonlinear cavity parametrically driven by a single-photon process assuming single-photon loss mechanisms. We study photon blockade engineering via a nonlinear reservoir, i.e., a quantum reservoir, where only two-photon absorption is allowed. Namely, we analyze a lossy nonlinear cavity parametrically driven by a two-photon process and allowing two-photon loss mechanisms, as described by the master equation derived for a two-photon absorbing reservoir. The nonlinear cavity engineering can be realized by a linear cavity with a tunable two-level system via the Jaynes-Cummings interaction in the dispersive limit. We show that by tuning properly the frequencies of the driving field and the two-level system, the steady state of the cavity field can be the single-photon Fock state or a partially incoherent superposition of several Fock states with photon numbers, e.g., (0,2), (1,3), (0,1,2), or (0,2,4). At the right (now fixed) frequencies, we observe that an arbitrary initial coherent or incoherent superposition of Fock states with an even (odd) number of photons is changed into a partially incoherent superposition of a few Fock states of the same photon-number parity. We find analytically approximate formulas for these two kinds of solutions for several differently-tuned systems. A general solution for an arbitrary initial state is a weighted mixture of the above two solutions with even and odd photon numbers, where the weights are given by the probabilities of measuring the even and odd numbers of photons of the initial cavity field, respectively. This can be interpreted as two separate evolution-dissipation channels for even and odd-number states. Thus, in contrast to the standard predictions of photon blockade, we prove that the steady state of the cavity field, in the engineered photon blockade, can depend on its initial state. To make our results more explicit, we analyze photon blockades for some initial infinite-dimensional quantum and classical states via the Wigner and photon-number distributions

Funding

This work was supported by the Polish National Science Centre under Grants No. DEC-2011/03/B/ST2/01903 and DEC-2012/04/M/ST2/00789.

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  • Science

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  • Physics

Published in

Physical Review A

Volume

90

Issue

3

Citation

MIRANOWICZ, A. ...et al., 2014. State-dependent photon blockade via quantum-reservoir engineering. Physical Review A, 90, 033831.

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© American Physical Society

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014-09-19

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Physical Review A [© American Physical Society] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.033831

ISSN

2469-9926

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2469-9934

Language

  • en

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