Dynamical blockade in a single-mode bosonic system

• Main Authors: Ghosh, Sanjib, Liew, Timothy Chi Hin
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::Physics; Single Photons; Photon Blockade
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85303; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49409; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/TDS9PE
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We introduce a dynamical blockade phenomenon occurring in a nonlinear bosonic mode induced by a combination of continuous and pulsed excitations. We find that the underlying mechanism for the blockade is general, enhancing antibunching in the strongly nonlinear regime and inducing it in the weakly nonlinear regime, without fine-tuning the system parameters. Moreover, this mechanism shows advantages over existing blockade mechanisms and is suitable for implementation in a wide variety of systems due to its simplicity and universality.