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Second-order Nonlinearity Induced Unconventional Photon Blockade

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In the recent publications (Gerace and Savona, Phys. Rev. A 89(R), 031803 2014; Zhou et al., Opt. Express 24, 17332 2016), the unconventional photon blockades are studied in a three-mode-second-order-nonlinearity system with linear coupling between the two low frequency modes. In this paper, the unconventional photon blockade is studied in a complementary case with linear coupling between the two high frequency modes. By solving the master equation in the steady-state limit and calculating the zerodelay- time second-order correlation function, a strong photon antibunching is found in this three-mode-second-order-nonlinearity system. The optimal antibunching conditions are derived and the numerical simulations confirm the optimal conditions. Our scheme can be used as a tunable single-photon source.

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This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No. 11705025; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grants No. 2016M600223 and No. 2017T100192; and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2412017QD005.

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    Y. H. Zhou, Qi-Cheng Wu, Biaoliang Ye & Liyuan Xue

  2. Center for Quantum Sciences and School of Physics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China

    H. Z. Shen

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Zhou, Y.H., Wu, QC., Ye, B. et al. Second-order Nonlinearity Induced Unconventional Photon Blockade. Int J Theor Phys 58, 472–479 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-018-3947-4

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