Collective multiphoton blockade in cavity quantum electrodynamics Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 American Physical Society. We present a study of collective multiphoton blockade in coherently driven atoms in a single-mode cavity. Considering two atoms strongly coupled to an optical cavity, we show that the two-photon blockade with two-photon antibunching, and the three-photon blockade with three-photon antibunching can be observed simultaneously. The three-photon blockade probes both dressed states in the two-photon and three-photon spaces. The two-photon and three-photon blockades strongly depend on the location of the two atoms in the strong-coupling regime. The asymmetry in the atom-cavity coupling constants opens pathways for multiphoton blockade which is also shown to be sensitive to the atomic decay and pumping strengths. The work presented here predicts many quantum statistical features due to the collective behavior of atoms and can be useful to generate nonclassical photon pairs.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

altmetric score

  • 0.75

author list (cited authors)

  • Zhu, C. J., Yang, Y. P., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 47

complete list of authors

  • Zhu, CJ||Yang, YP||Agarwal, GS

publication date

  • June 2017