$n$-photon blockade with an $n$-photon parametric drive

Yan-Hui Zhou, Fabrizio Minganti, Wei Qin +5

We propose a mechanism to engineer an $n$-photon blockade in a nonlinear cavity with an $n$-photon parametric drive $\lambda ({\hat{a}}^{†n}+{\hat{a}}^n)$. When an $n$-photon-excitation reson…