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