Photonic quantum transport in a nonlinear optical fiber
Abstract
We theoretically study the transmission of few-photon quantum fields through a strongly nonlinear optical medium. We develop a general approach to investigate nonequilibrium quantum transport of bosonic fields through a finite-size nonlinear medium and apply it to a recently demonstrated experimental system where cold atoms are loaded in a hollow-core optical fiber. We show that when the interaction between photons is effectively repulsive, the system acts as a single-photon switch. In the case of attractive interaction, the system can exhibit either antibunching or bunching, associated with the resonant excitation of bound states of photons by the input field. These effects can be observed by probing statistics of photons transmitted through the nonlinear fiber.
Additional Information
© 2011 EPLA. Received 29 July 2010; accepted in final form 26 April 2011; published online 27 May 2011. We thank V. Gurarie, A. Sørensen and S. Fan for useful discussions. This work was partially supported by NSF, NSF DMR-0705472, Swiss NSF, CUA, DARPA, Packard Foundation and AFOSR-MURI. DEC acknowledges support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through Caltech's CPI, and NSF PHY-0803371. Note added in proofs: Shortly after the initial submission of this paper, ref. [13] appeared on the arXiv which studies the dissipation-induced Tonks-Girardeau gas of polaritons.Attached Files
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- DMR-0705472
- NSF
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- CUA
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- PHY-0803371
- NSF
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