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Multiphoton blockade and antibunching in an optical cavity coupled with dipole-dipole-interacting Λ-type atoms

Zeshan Haider1,*, Shahid Qamar1,2, and Muhammad Irfan1,2,†

  • 1Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
  • 2Center for Mathematical Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan

  • *Present address: National Institute of Lasers and Optronics, PIEAS, Nilore, Islamabad 45650, Pakistan.
  • †Corresponding author: m.irfanphy@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 043702 – Published 4 April, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.043702

Abstract

We study multiphoton blockade effects in a single-mode cavity interacting with two three-level atoms in Λ configuration having position-dependent atom-field coupling. We consider the effects of dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) between the three-level atoms and show how the presence of DDI strongly influences the multiphoton blockade. For symmetric coupling of the atoms with the field, the DDI induces an asymmetry in the emission spectra as a function of pump field detuning. At positive detuning, the single-photon blockade gets stronger as a function of DDI strength, leading to photon antibunching. However, it becomes weaker at negative detuning and can also completely vanish. We show that this vanishing single-photon blockade is associated with a strong two-photon blockade, leading to two-photon bunching. Therefore, by just tuning the frequency of the pump field, we can achieve two very distinct features. We also study the effects of DDI when the atoms are asymmetrically coupled with the field and show that the proposed system exhibits two-photon bunching. We believe our results are important for the experimental realization of such systems where DDI may be present.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 043702– Published 4 April, 2023
  • Received 22 August 2022
  • Revised 17 February 2023
  • Accepted 20 March 2023
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