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20182025
most citedNonreciprocal and chiral single-photon scattering for giant atoms

112 citations · 761 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

quant-ph2025

Selective high-order topological states and tunable chiral emission in atomic metasurfaces

Yi-Xin Wang, Yan Zhang, Lei Du +2

Atomic metasurfaces (AMs) provide a powerful nanophotonic platform for integrating topological effects into quantum many-body systems. In this Letter, we investigate the quantum op…

quant-ph2023

Single-photon manipulations based on optically-controlled chiral couplings in waveguide structures of Rydberg giant atoms

Yao-Tong Chen, Lei Du, Zhihai Wang +3

Two interacting Rydberg atoms coupled to a waveguide realize a giant-atom platform that exhibits the controllable (phase-dependent) chirality where the direction of nonreciprocal p…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Chiral phase modulation and tunable broadband perfect absorber using the coherent cold atomic ensemble

Yi-Xin Wang, Yan Zhang, Lei Du +1

We investigate the two-channel nonreciprocal scattering of a coherent atomic ensemble under the linear spatial Kramers-Kronig modulation, which has potential applications in chiral…

quant-ph2023★ 27 cited

Giant Emitters in a Structured Bath with Non-Hermitian Skin Effect

Lei Du, Lingzhen Guo, Yan Zhang +1

Giant emitters derive their name from nonlocal field-emitter interactions and feature diverse self-interference effects. Most of the existing works on giant emitters have considere…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Amplifying Frequency Up-Converted Infrared Signals with a Molecular Optomechanical Cavity

Fen Zou, Lei Du, Yong Li +1

Frequency up-conversion, enabled by molecular optomechanical coupling, has recently emerged as a promising approach for converting infrared signals into the visible range through q…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Giant-Atom Effects on Population and Entanglement Dynamics of Rydberg Atoms

Yao-Tong Chen, Lei Du, Yan Zhang +4

Giant atoms are attracting interest as an emerging paradigm in the quantum optics of engineered waveguides. Here we propose to realize a synthetic giant atom working in the optical…

quant-ph2023

Experimental Implementation of Short-Path Non-adiabatic Geometric Gates in a Superconducting Circuit

Xin-Xin Yang, Liang-Liang Guo, Hai-Feng Zhang +8

The non-adiabatic geometric quantum computation (NGQC) has attracted a lot of attention for noise-resilient quantum control. However, previous implementations of NGQC require long…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Decay dynamics of a giant atom in a structured bath with broken time-reversal symmetry

Lei Du, Yao-Tong Chen, Yan Zhang +2

We study in this paper the decay dynamics of a two-level giant atom, which is coupled to a quasi-one-dimensional sawtooth lattice exposed to uniform synthetic magnetic fluxes. In t…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Enhanced sensing of optomechanically induced nonlinearity by linewidth suppression and optical bistability in cavity-waveguide systems

Chun-Wang Liu, Ye Liu, Lei Du +3

We study enhanced sensing of optomechanically induced nonlinearity (OMIN) in a cavity-waveguide coupled system. The Hamiltonian of the system is anti-PT symmetric with the two invo…

quant-ph2022★ 63 cited

Complex decoherence-free interactions between giant atoms

Lei Du, Lingzhen Guo, Yong Li

Giant atoms provide a promising platform for engineering decoherence-free interactions which is a major task in modern quantum technologies. Here we study systematically how to imp…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

A giant atom with modulated transition frequency

Lei Du, Yan Zhang, Yong Li

Giant atoms are known for the frequency-dependent spontaneous emission and associated interference effects. In this paper, we study the spontaneous emission dynamics of a two-level…

quant-ph2022★ 112 cited

Nonreciprocal and chiral single-photon scattering for giant atoms

Yao-Tong Chen, Lei Du, Lingzhen Guo +4

Quantum optics with giant atoms has provided a new paradigm to study photon scatterings. In this work, we investigate the nontrivial single-photon scattering properties of giant at…

quant-ph2022★ 66 cited

Giant atoms with time-dependent couplings

Lei Du, Yao-Tong Chen, Yan Zhang +1

We study the decay dynamics of a two-level giant atom that is coupled to a waveguide with time-dependent coupling strengths. In the non-Markovian regime where the retardation effec…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Quantum transport in nonlinear Rudner-Levitov models

Lei Du, Jin-Hui Wu, M. Artoni +1

Quantum transport in a class of nonlinear extensions of the Rudner-Levitov model is numerically studied in this paper. We show that the quantization of the mean displacement, which…

quant-ph2021★ 104 cited

Giant Atoms in a Synthetic Frequency Dimension

Lei Du, Yan Zhang, Jin-Hui Wu +2

Giant atoms that interact with real-space waveguides at multiple spatial points have attracted extensive attention due to their unique interference effects. Here we propose a feasi…

quant-ph2021

Nonreciprocal frequency conversion with chiral -type atoms

Lei Du, Yao-Tong Chen, Yong Li

In this paper, we begin with a model of a -type atom whose both transitions are chirally coupled to a waveguide and then extend the model to its giant-atom version. We investiga…

quant-ph2021★ 80 cited

Single-photon frequency conversion via a giant -type atom

Lei Du, Yong Li

We study single-photon scattering via a giant -type atom, where both atomic transitions are coupled with the modes of a single waveguide at two separated points. The giant-atom…

quant-ph2021★ 59 cited

Single-photon nonreciprocal excitation transfer with non-Markovian retarded effects

Lei Du, Mao-Rui Cai, Jin-Hui Wu +2

We study at the single-photon level the nonreciprocal excitation transfer between emitters coupled with a common waveguide. Non-Markovian retarded effects are taken into account du…

quant-ph2020★ 69 cited

Perfect Transfer of enhanced entanglement and asymmetric steering in a cavity magnomechanical system

Yao-Tong Chen, Lei Du, Yan Zhang +1

We propose a hybrid cavity magnomechanical system to realize and transfer the bipartite entanglements and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steerings between magnons, photons, and phon…

physics.optics2020★ 13 cited

Controllable optical response and tunable sensing based on self interference in waveguide QED systems

Lei Du, Zhihai Wang, Yong Li

We study the self interference effect of a resonator coupled with a bent waveguide at two separated ports. Such interference effects are shown to be similar for the cases of standi…

quant-ph2019★ 19 cited

Nonreciprocal quantum interference and coherent photon routing in a three-port optomechanical system

Lei Du, Yao-Tong Chen, Jin-Hui Wu +1

We study the quantum interference between different weak signals in a three-port optomechanical system, which is achieved by coupling three cavity modes to the same mechanical mode…

quant-ph2019★ 40 cited

Phase controlled single-photon nonreciprocal transmission in a one-dimensional waveguide

Zhihai Wang, Lei Du, Yong Li +1

We study the controllable single-photon scattering via a one-dimensional waveguide which is coupled to a two-level emitter and a single-mode cavity simultaneously. The emitter and…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 6 cited

Dynamical evolution of an effective two-level system with PT symmetry

Lei Du, Zhihao Xu, Chuanhao Yin +1

We investigate the dynamics of parity- and time-reversal (PT ) symmetric two-energy-level atoms in the presence of two optical and a radio-frequency (rf) fields. The strength and r…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 13 cited

Dynamical evolutions in non-Hermitian triple-well system with complex potential

Liping Guo, Lei Du, Chuanhao Yin +2

We investigate the dynamical properties for non-Hermitian triple-well system with a loss in the middle well. When chemical potentials in two end wells are uniform and nonlinear int…