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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Photon blockade effect in the ultrastrong coupling regime

A. Ridolfo, Martin Leib, Salvatore Savasta, Michael J. Hartmann

Published May 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

The paper presents calculations for photon coincidence counting statistics in the ultrastrong coupling regime, where the strength of the interaction between an emitter and the cavity photons becomes comparable to the transition frequency of the emitter or the resonance frequency of the cavity mode.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2013.6801636

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