Photon Anomalous Blockade in Waveguide Cavity QED with Atomic Mirrors

TL;DR

This paper investigates photon blockade phenomena in waveguide cavity QED systems with atomic mirrors, revealing conditions for anomalous blockade due to the quantum Zeno effect even with high dissipation.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of photon anomalous blockade in waveguide cavity QED, expanding understanding beyond conventional strong coupling requirements.

Findings

Photon blockade can occur in high dissipation regimes.

Quantum Zeno effect underpins the anomalous blockade.

Robustness against atom position variations.

Abstract

Waveguide cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with atomic mirrors is a growing research area of quantum optics and can be applied to quantum information processing. We here study the photon statistics of output fields from a waveguide cavity QED system, in which the waveguide is coupled to quantized mirror atoms and one driven medium atom. Our results show that the photon blockade can occur even for a bad atom cavity with large dissipation and small coupling between the medium atom and the cavity, in contrast to the small dissipation and the strong coupling of the medium atom to the cavity field for the conventional photon blockade or the quantum interference for the unconventional photon blockade in the cavity QED system. Utilizing both the master equation and scattering theories, we derive the condition under which the photon blockade occurs in weakly driven systems. We find that such photon anomalous blockade is due to the quantum Zeno effect and is robust against variations of the medium atom's position within the cavity. Our study paves a way to exploit the photon blockade and single-photon devices via the waveguide cavity QED.