Quantum blockade
I call here quantum blockade what is better known as Coulomb blockade, photon blockade or polariton blockade, depending on what it is that you are blocking.
There is two types of blockades, which the literature came to call the "conventional" blockade, which got this name after the second type, or so-called "unconventional" blockade was reported.
The effect was re-discovered by T. Liew and V. Savonna in a photonic molecule.[1]. They observed the phenomenon numerically with little understanding of it, which leads to a wrong title for their paper as they mistook antibunching with single-photon emission.
We provided a unified and complete picture of the phenomenon[2], which shows that they manifest together.
Conventional Blockade
Unconventional Blockade
There are many variations of the scheme, including inverse parametric scattering[3], the dynamical blockade[4], bi-chromatic driving[5], etc.
Tim Liew, who brought the effect back to life, has been very active and creative on the topic.[6][7][8]
See also works by D. Stefanatos et al.[9]
References
- ↑ Single Photons from Coupled Quantum Modes. T. C. H. Liew and V. Savona in Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:183601 (2010).
- ↑ Conventional and Unconventional Photon statistics. E. Zubizarreta Casalengua, J. C. López Carreño, F. P. Laussy and E. del Valle in Laser Photon. Rev. 14:1900279 (2020).
- ↑ Triggered single-photon emitters based on stimulated parametric scattering in weakly nonlinear systems. O. Kyriienko and T. C. H. Liew in Phys. Rev. A 90:063805 (2014).
- ↑ Dynamical Blockade in a Single-Mode Bosonic System. S. Ghosh and T. C. H. Liew in Phys. Rev. Lett. 123:013602 (2019).
- ↑ Single-Mode Photon Blockade Enhanced by Bi-Tone Drive. M. Li, Y.-L. Zhang, S.-H. Wu, C.-H. Dong, X.-B. Zou, G.-C. Guo and C.-L. Zou in Phys. Rev. Lett. 129:043601 (2022).
- ↑ Multipartite polariton entanglement in semiconductor microcavities. T. C. H. Liew and V. Savona in Phys. Rev. B 84:032301 (2011).
- ↑ Quantum entanglement in nanocavity arrays. T. Liew and V. Savona in Phys. Rev. A 85:050301 (2012).
- ↑ Multimode entanglement in coupled cavity arrays. T.C.H. Liew and V. Savona in New J. Phys. 15:025015 (2013).
- ↑ Boosting entanglement between exciton-polaritons with on-off switching of Josephson coupling. D. Stefanatos and E. Paspalakis in Phys. Rev. B 98:035303 (2018).