Hybrid coupling optomechanically assisted nonreciprocal photon blockade

TL;DR

This paper explores how environment-induced nonlinearity in a hybrid optomechanical system can lead to nonreciprocal photon blockade, with potential applications in quantum information processing and simulation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to induce nonreciprocal photon blockade via environment-induced cross-Kerr coupling in a hybrid optomechanical system.

Findings

Environment-induced cross-Kerr interaction enables nonreciprocal photon blockade.

Symmetry breaking with directional pumping causes nonreciprocal behavior.

Potential applications in quantum information processing and quantum simulation.

Abstract

The properties of open quantum system in quantum information science is now extensively investigated more generally by the research community as a fundamental issue for a variety of applications. Usually, the states of the open quantum system might be disturbed by the decoherence which will reduce the fidelity in the quantum information processing. So it is better to eliminate the influence of the environment. However, as part of the composite system, rational use of the environment system could be beneficial to quantum information processing. Here we theoretically studied the environment induced quantum nonlinearity and energy spectrum tuning method in the optomechanical system. And we found that the dissipation coupling of the hybrid dissipation and dispersion optomechanical system can induce the coupling between the environment and system in the cross- Kerr interaction form. When the symmetry is broken with a directional pumping environment, the system exhibits the non-reciprocal behavior during the photon excitation and photon blockade for the clockwise and counterclockwise modes of the whispering-gallery mode microcavity. Furthermore, we believe that the cross-Kerr coupling can also be used in a more widely region in quantum information processing and quantum simulation.