Photon blockade in two-emitter-cavity systems

Radulaski, Marina and Fischer, Kevin A. and Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G. and Zhang, Jingyuan Linda and Vučković, Jelena (2017) Photon blockade in two-emitter-cavity systems. Physical Review A, 96 (1). 011801. ISSN 2469-9934 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.011801)

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Abstract

The photon blockade (PB) effect in emitter-cavity systems depends on the anharmonicity of the ladder of dressed energy eigenstates. The recent developments in color center photonics are leading toward experimental demonstrations of multiemitter-cavity solid-state systems with an expanded set of energy levels compared to the traditionally studied single-emitter systems. We focus on the case of N=2 nonidentical quasiatoms strongly coupled to a nanocavity in the bad cavity regime (with parameters within reach of the color center systems), and discover three PB mechanisms: polaritonic, subradiant, and unconventional. The polaritonic PB, which is the conventional mechanism studied in single-emitter-cavity systems, also occurs at the polariton frequencies in multiemitter systems. The subradiant PB is a new interference effect owing to the inhomogeneous broadening of the emitters which results in a purer and a more robust single-photon emission than the polaritonic PB. The unconventional PB in the modeled system corresponds to the suppression of the single- and two-photon correlation statistics and the enhancement of the three-photon correlation statistic. Using the effective Hamiltonian approach, we unravel the origin and the time-domain evolution of these phenomena.

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Radulaski, Marina, Fischer, Kevin A., Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4410-4755, Zhang, Jingyuan Linda and Vučković, Jelena;
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