1. Enhanced Photon Routing Beyond the Blockade Limit Via Linear Optics
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Singh, Harjot, Basani, Jasvith Raj, and Waks, Edo
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Quantum Physics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,Physics - Optics ,Optics (physics.optics) - Abstract
Directing indistinguishable photons from one input port into separate output ports is a fundamental operation in quantum information processing. The simplest scheme for achieving routing beyond random chance uses the photon blockade effect of a two-level emitter. But this approach is limited by a time-energy uncertainty relation. We show that a linear optical unitary transformation applied after the atom enables splitting efficiencies that exceed this time-energy limit. We show that the linear optical unitary improves the splitting efficiency from 67\% to 82\% for unentangled photon inputs, and from 77\% to 90\% for entangled photon inputs. We then optimize the temporal mode profile of the entangled photon wavefunction to attain the optimal splitting efficiency of 92\%, a significant improvement over previous limits derived using a two-level atom alone. These results provide a path towards optimizing single photon nonlinearities and engineering programmable and robust photon-photon interactions for practical, high-fidelity quantum operations., Comment: 14 pages (including appendix), 4 figures
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- 2023
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