Breakdown of Photon Blockade: A Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition in Zero Dimensions

The Jaynes-Cummings model with coherent drive is considered as an example of a nonlinear oscillator exhibiting photon blockade, where blockade by one, two, three, etc., photons occurs at a sequence of multiphoton absorption resonances. It is shown that with increasing drive strength, the blockade br...

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Main Author: H. J. Carmichael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015-09-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031028