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Physical Review A

Dissipation-induced photonic-correlation transition in waveguide-QED systems

Zihao Chen, Yao Zhou, Jung‐Tsung Shen

Published Nov 3, 2017• 39 citations
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Abstract

We study computationally the effects of dissipations on correlated two-photon transport in waveguide--quantum-electrodynamic systems. We show that in the dissipative regime, the two-photon correlation signatures remain prominent even when the two-photon transport can be described by a single-photon picture. Moreover, by varying the dissipation, the photonic correlation can have an induced transition from bunching to antibunching, and vice versa, depending on the input quantum state.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.96.053805

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