Self-protected polariton states in photonic quantum metamaterials

Matteo Biondi, Sebastian Schmidt, Gianni Blatter, Hakan E. Türeci

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Abstract

We investigate the single-photon transport properties of a one-dimensional coupled cavity array (CCA) containing a single qubit in its central site by coupling the CCA to two transmission lines supporting propagating bosonic modes with linear dispersion. We find that even in the nominally weak light-matter coupling regime, the transmission through a long array exhibits two ultra-narrow resonances corresponding to long-lived, self-protected polaritonic states localized around the site containing the qubit. The lifetime of these states is found to increase exponentially with the number of array sites, in sharp distinction to the polaritonic Bloch modes of the cavity array.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number025801
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume89
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 10 2014

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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