Many-Body Photon Blockade and Quantum Light Generation from Cavity Quantum Materials

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Main Authors: Kass, Benjamin, Talkington, Spenser, Srivastava, Ajit, Claassen, Martin
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Published: 2024
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author Kass, Benjamin
Talkington, Spenser
Srivastava, Ajit
Claassen, Martin
author_facet Kass, Benjamin
Talkington, Spenser
Srivastava, Ajit
Claassen, Martin
contents The strong coupling regime of photons and quantum materials inside optical cavities has emerged as a promising environment for manipulating states of matter with light. Here, in turn, we show that photons bear witness to cavity quantum-electrodynamical modifications of the material, leading to profoundly non-classical properties of light passing through the cavity. By generalizing quantum-optical input-output relations to correlated quantum materials, we study the second-order photon coherence g2(t) and demonstrate that antibunching of transmitted photons serves as direct evidence of light-induced changes to the cavity-embedded material. We show that materials near a quantum critical point can realize a collective many-body photon blockade, enabling the generation of single photons or Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs via leveraging strong matter fluctuations. Our findings provide new routes for interrogating and harnessing cavity-embedded quantum materials as quantum light sources, as a resource for photon-based computation and quantum sensing.
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spellingShingle Many-Body Photon Blockade and Quantum Light Generation from Cavity Quantum Materials
Kass, Benjamin
Talkington, Spenser
Srivastava, Ajit
Claassen, Martin
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Physics
The strong coupling regime of photons and quantum materials inside optical cavities has emerged as a promising environment for manipulating states of matter with light. Here, in turn, we show that photons bear witness to cavity quantum-electrodynamical modifications of the material, leading to profoundly non-classical properties of light passing through the cavity. By generalizing quantum-optical input-output relations to correlated quantum materials, we study the second-order photon coherence g2(t) and demonstrate that antibunching of transmitted photons serves as direct evidence of light-induced changes to the cavity-embedded material. We show that materials near a quantum critical point can realize a collective many-body photon blockade, enabling the generation of single photons or Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs via leveraging strong matter fluctuations. Our findings provide new routes for interrogating and harnessing cavity-embedded quantum materials as quantum light sources, as a resource for photon-based computation and quantum sensing.
title Many-Body Photon Blockade and Quantum Light Generation from Cavity Quantum Materials
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08964