Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Environmentally induced photon blockade via two-photon absorption

YH Zhou, XY Zhang, T Liu, QC Wu, ZC Shi, HZ Shen… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We propose that photon blockade can be enabled by a two-photon absorption environment.
The validity of this conclusion is confirmed by studying the blockade in a driven single-mode …

Optical noise-resistant nonreciprocal phonon blockade in a spinning optomechanical resonator

N Yuan, S He, SY Li, N Wang, AD Zhu - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
A scheme of nonreciprocal conventional phonon blockade (PB) is proposed in a spinning
optomechanical resonator coupled with a two-level atom. The coherent coupling between …

Long-lasting quantum memories: Extending the coherence time of superconducting artificial atoms in the ultrastrong-coupling regime

R Stassi, F Nori - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
Quantum systems are affected by interactions with their environments, causing decoherence
through two processes: pure dephasing and energy relaxation. For quantum information …

Hybrid photon–phonon blockade

S Abo, G Chimczak, A Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
We describe a novel type of blockade in a hybrid mode generated by linear coupling of
photonic and phononic modes. We refer to this effect as hybrid photon–phonon blockade …

Chiral interaction induced near-perfect photon blockade

ZG Lu, Y Wu, XY Lü - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09000, 2024 - arxiv.org
Based on the scattering matrix method, we theoretically demonstrate that the chiral
interaction can induce the almost perfect photon blockade (PB) in the waveguide-cavity …

Dissipation-induced bistability in the two-photon Dicke model

L Garbe, P Wade, F Minganti, N Shammah… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The Dicke model is a paradigmatic quantum-optical model describing the interaction of a
collection of two-level systems with a single bosonic mode. Effective implementations of this …

Photon blockade in a bimode nonlinear nanocavity embedded with a quantum dot

X Liang, Z Duan, Q Guo, S Guan, M Xie, C Liu - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study the photon antibunching effect in a bimode nano-optical cavity filled with the
second-order nonlinear material and embedded with a quantum dot. Analytical results show …

Observing pure effects of counter-rotating terms without ultrastrong coupling: A single photon can simultaneously excite two qubits

X Wang, A Miranowicz, HR Li, F Nori - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
The coherent process that a single photon simultaneously excites two qubits has recently
been theoretically predicted by Garziano et al.[L. Garziano, V. Macrì, R. Stassi, O. Di Stefano …

Giant enhancement of unconventional photon blockade in a dimer chain

Y Wang, W Verstraelen, B Zhang, TCH Liew… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Unconventional photon blockade refers to the suppression of multiphoton states in weakly
nonlinear optical resonators via the destructive interference of different excitation pathways …