Antibunched photon-pair source based on photon blockade effect in a nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator

Antibunched Emission of Photon-Pairs via Quantum Zeno Blockade

We propose a new methodology, namely "quantum Zeno blockade," for managing light scattering at a few-photon level in general nonlinear-optical media, such as crystals, fibers, silicon microrings, and atomic vapors. Using this tool, antibunched emission of photon pairs can be achieved, leading to potent quantum-optics applications such as deterministic entanglement generation without the need for heralding. In a practical implementation using an on-chip toroidal microcavity immersed in rubidium vapor, we estimate that high-fidelity entangled photons can be produced on-demand at MHz rates or hig…

Photon-pair blockade in a Josephson-photonics circuit with two nondegenerate microwave resonators

We propose to generate photon-pair blockade in a Josephson-photonics circuit that consists of a dc voltage-biased Josephson junction in series with a superconducting charge qubit and two nondegenerate microwave resonators. The two-level charge qubit is utilized to create anticorrelations of the charge transport; that is, the simultaneous Cooper pair tunneling events are inhibited. When the Josephson frequency matches the sum of resonance frequencies of the charge qubit and the two resonators, we demonstrate that the two resonators can release their energies in the form of antibunched pairs of …

Electromagnetic control of the collective radiations with three-photon blockade

We study properties of collective radiations of coherently driven two three-level ladder-type atoms trapped in a single-mode cavity. Using the electromagnetically induced transparency technique, we show that the three-photon blockade effect can be observed and the properties of collective radiations are strongly dependent on the phase between two atoms. In the case of in-phase radiations, the frequency range to realize the three-photon blockade can be broadened as the control field increases. However, in the regime of the three-photon blockade, the property of collective radiations changes fro…

Interfering pathways for photon blockade in cavity QED with one and two qubits

We theoretically study the quantum interference induced photon blockade phenomenon in atom cavity QED system, where the destructive interference between two different transition pathways prohibits the two-photon excitation. Here, we first explore the single atom cavity QED system via an atom or cavity drive. We show that the cavity-driven case will lead to the quantum interference induced photon blockade under a specific condition, but the atom driven case can't result in such interference induced photon blockade. Then, we investigate the two atoms case, and find that an additional transition …

腔量子电动力学中非传统光子阻塞效应与参数放大

Unconventional photon blockade in cavity QED with parametric amplification

该研究通过参数放大和量子干涉在腔量子电动力学中实现非传统光子阻塞效应，发现原子驱动配置能产生更强的光子反 bunching。

Unconventional photon blockade in doubly resonant microcavities with second-order nonlinearity

It is shown that non-centrosymmetric materials with bulk second-order nonlinear susceptibility can be used to generate strongly antibunched radiation at an arbitrary wavelength, solely determined by the resonant behavior of suitably engineered coupled microcavities. The proposed scheme exploits the unconventional photon blockade of a coherent driving field at the input of a coupled cavity system, where one of the two cavities is engineered to resonate at both fundamental and second harmonic frequencies, respectively. Remarkably, the unconventional blockade mechanism occurs with reasonably low …