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most citedNonreciprocal Photon Blockade

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quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Observation of quantum temporal correlations well beyond Luders bound

Chun-Wang Wu, Man-Chao Zhang, Yan-Li Zhou +10

Quantum correlations, both spatial and temporal, are the central pillars of quantum mechanics. Over the last two decades, a big breakthrough in quantum physics is its complex exten…

quant-ph2023

Switching classical and quantum nonreciprocities with spinning photonics

Yonglin Xiang, Yunlan Zuo, Xun-Wei Xu +2

We study how to achieve, manipulate, and switch classical or quantum nonreciprocal effects of light with a spinning Kerr resonator. In particular, we show that even when there is n…

quant-ph2023★ 41 cited

Nonreciprocal slow or fast light in anti--symmetric optomechanics

Meiyu Peng, Huilai Zhang, Qian Zhang +3

Non-Hermitian systems with anti-parity-time () symmetry have revealed rich physics beyond conventional systems. Here, we study optomechanics in an -sy…

quant-ph2023★ 67 cited

Enhancement of quantum heat engine by encircling a Liouvillian exceptional point

J. -T. Bu, J. -Q. Zhang, G. -Y. Ding +10

Quantum heat engines are expected to outperform the classical counterparts due to quantum coherences involved. Here we experimentally execute a single-ion quantum heat engine and d…

quant-ph2022★ 113 cited

Dynamical Control of Quantum Heat Engines Using Exceptional Points

J. -W. Zhang, J. -Q. Zhang, G. -Y. Ding +11

A quantum thermal machine is an open quantum system coupled to hot and cold thermal baths. Thus, its dynamics can be well understood using the concepts and tools from non-Hermitian…

quant-ph2022★ 60 cited

Phase-controlled asymmetric optomechanical entanglement against optical backscattering

Jing-Xue Liu, Ya-Feng Jiao, Ying Li +3

Quantum entanglement plays a key role in both understanding the fundamental aspects of quantum physics and realizing various quantum devices for practical applications. Here we pro…

quant-ph2022★ 89 cited

Nonreciprocal enhancement of remote entanglement between nonidentical mechanical oscillators

Ya-Feng Jiao, Jing-Xue Liu, Ying Li +3

Entanglement between distant massive mechanical oscillators is of particular interest in quantum-enabled devices due to its potential applications in distributed quantum informatio…

quant-ph2022★ 26 cited

Squeezing-enhanced quantum sensing with quadratic optomechanics

Sheng-Dian Zhang, Jie Wang, Qian Zhang +6

Cavity optomechanical (COM) sensors, enhanced by quantum squeezing or entanglement, have become powerful tools for measuring ultra-weak forces with high precision and sensitivity.…

physics.optics2021★ 31 cited

Anti--symmetric Kerr gyroscope

Huilai Zhang, Meiyu Peng, Xun-Wei Xu +1

Non-Hermitian systems can exhibit unconventional spectral singularities called exceptional points (EPs). Various EP sensors have been fabricated in recent years, showing strong spe…

physics.optics2021★ 25 cited

Topological optomechanical amplifier with synthetic -symmetry

Jian-Qi Zhang, Jing-Xin Liu, Hui-Lai Zhang +6

We propose how to achieve synthetic symmetry in optomechanics without using any active medium. We find that harnessing the Stokes process in such a system can lead t…

quant-ph2020★ 104 cited

Exceptional Photon Blockade: Engineering Photon Blockade with Chiral Exceptional Points

R. Huang, Ş. K. Özdemir, J. -Q. Liao +4

Non-Hermitian spectral degeneracies, known as exceptional points (EPs), feature simultaneous coalescence of both eigenvalues and the associated eigenstates of a system. A host of i…

quant-ph2018★ 502 cited

Nonreciprocal Photon Blockade

Ran Huang, Adam Miranowicz, Jie-Qiao Liao +2

We propose how to create and manipulate one-way nonclassical light via photon blockade in rotating nonlinear devices. We refer to this effect as nonreciprocal photon blockade (PB).…

quant-ph2016★ 186 cited

High-order exceptional points in optomechanics

H. Jing, Ş. K. Özdemir, H. Lü +1

We study mechanical cooling in systems of coupled passive (lossy) and active (with gain) optical resonators. We find that for a driving laser which is red-detuned with respect to t…

physics.optics2016★ 232 cited

Experimental demonstration of spontaneous chirality in a nonlinear microresonator

Qi-Tao Cao, He-Ming Wang, Chun-Hua Dong +6

Chirality is an important concept that describes the asymmetry property of a system, which usually emerges spontaneously due to mirror symmetry breaking. Such spontaneous chirality…

quant-ph2015★ 445 cited

Metrology with -symmetric cavities: Enhanced sensitivity near the -phase transition

Zhong-Peng Liu, Jing Zhang, Şahin Kaya Özdemir +7

We propose and analyze a new approach based on parity-time () symmetric microcavities with balanced gain and loss to enhance the performance of cavity-assisted metrol…

quant-ph2015★ 356 cited

-Symmetry-Breaking Chaos in Optomechanics

Xin-You Lü, Hui Jing, Jin-Yong Ma +1

We demonstrate a -symmetry-breaking chaos in optomechanical system (OMS), which features an ultralow driving threshold. In principle, this chaos will emerge once a dr…