Manipulating photonic quantum states with long-range interactions

Abstract

We present a scheme for coherently manipulating quantum states of photons by incorporating multiple photonic modes in a system with long-range interactions. The presence of nonlocal photon-photon interactions destroys the energy or momentum matching conditions between distinct propagating polaritons, and consequently gives rise to blockaded effective coupling between the corresponding polaritons. Such a blockade mechanism protects the system from interaction-induced dissipations and enables highly tunable few-photon nonlinearities. Taking Rydberg atomic ensemble as an example, we illustrate several intriguing phenomena based on the proposed scheme, e.g., the deterministic generation of entangled photon pairs, the nonlinear beam splitting, as well as the establishment of a tunable dressed interaction between individual photons.

12 pages, 7 figures; accepted by Phys. Rev. A (https://journals.aps.org/pra/accepted/3207dYabHbd15562788742495523c7bccf59ce158)

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