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Optimal Photon Blockade on the Maximal Atomic Coherence

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There is generally no obvious evidence in any direct relation between photon blockade and atomic coherence. Here instead of only illustrating the photon statistics, we show an interesting relation between the steady-state photon blockade and the atomic coherence by designing a weakly driven cavity QED system with a two-level atom trapped. It is shown for the first time that the maximal atomic coherence has a perfect correspondence with the optimal photon blockade. The negative effects of the strong dissipations on photon statistics, atomic coherence and their correspondence are also addressed. The numerical simulation is also given to support all of our results.

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Y Zhang thanks J. S. Jin for valuable discussion. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant No.11375036 and 11175033, the Xinghai Scholar Cultivation Plan and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grants No. DUT15LK35 and No. DUT15TD47.

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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J. & Yu, Cs. Optimal Photon Blockade on the Maximal Atomic Coherence. Int J Theor Phys 55, 5239–5249 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3145-1

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