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IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense Conference (RAPID)

Strong Photon Antibunching in Weakly Nonlinear Two-Dimensional Exciton-Polaritons

Albert Ryou, David Rosser, Abhi Saxena, Taylor Fryett, Arka Majumdar

Published Aug 1, 2018• 3 citations
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Abstract

A scalable, deterministic array of single photon nonlinearities in the solid state holds great potential for both fundamental physics and technological applications, but its realization has proved extremely challenging. Here we explore a hybrid light-matter platform, marrying an atomically thin two-dimensional material to a photonic crystal cavity, and analyze its second-order coherence function. By patterning the two-dimensional material into different sizes, we demonstrate strong antibunching with g(2)(0) ~ 10-3, opening a possible route to building scalable, on-chip quantum simulators.

DOI
10.1109/rapid.2018.8509011

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