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arXiv:1209.3076 · Physical Review B

Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation

Arka Majumdar, Armand Rundquist, Michal Bajcsy, Vaishno D. Dasika, Seth R. Bank, Jelena Vuckovic A

Published Nov 19, 2012• 97 citations
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Abstract

We performed an experimental study of coupled optical cavity arrays in a photonic crystal platform. We find that the coupling between the cavities is significantly larger than the fabrication-induced disorder in the cavity frequencies. Satisfying this condition is necessary for using such cavity arrays to generate strongly correlated photons, which has potential application in the quantum simulation of many-body systems.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.86.195312

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