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Engineering Gaussian states of light from a planar microcavity
by Mathias Van Regemortel, Sylvain Ravets, Atac Imamoglu, Iacopo Carusotto, Michiel Wouters
This Submission thread is now published as SciPost Phys. 5, 013 (2018)
Submission summary
As Contributors: | Mathias Van Regemortel |
Arxiv Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08012v3 (pdf) |
Date accepted: | 2018-06-01 |
Date submitted: | 2018-05-29 02:00 |
Submitted by: | Van Regemortel, Mathias |
Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
Academic field: | Physics |
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Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
Quantum fluids of light in a nonlinear planar microcavity can exhibit antibunched photon statistics at short distances due to repulsive polariton interactions. We show that, despite the weakness of the nonlinearity, the antibunching signal can be amplified orders of magnitude with an appropriate free-space optics scheme to select and interfere output modes. Our results are understood from the unconventional photon blockade perspective by analyzing the approximate Gaussian output state of the microcavity. In a second part, we illustrate how the temporal and spatial profile of the density-density correlation function of a fluid of light can be reconstructed with free-space optics. Also here the nontrivial (anti)bunching signal can be amplified significantly by shaping the light emitted by the microcavity.
Ontology / Topics
See full Ontology or Topics database.Published as SciPost Phys. 5, 013 (2018)
Author comments upon resubmission
We hope that the referee is now willing to accept our work for publication in SciPost with this new analysis.
List of changes
We have revised the discussion of pure dephasing in appendix C.2.
Submission & Refereeing History
Published as SciPost Phys. 5, 013 (2018)
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Reports on this Submission
Anonymous Report 1 on 2018-5-30 (Invited Report)
Strengths
1- My remaining criticism on pure dephasing has now been addressed extensively and satisfactorily.
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My remaining criticism on pure dephasing has now been addressed extensively and satisfactorily.