Strong Photon Nonlinearities and Photonic Mott Insulators
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- 4 September 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 99 (10), 103601
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.103601
Abstract
We show that photon nonlinearities in an electromagnetically induced transparency can be at least 1 order of magnitude larger than predicted in all previous approaches. As an application we demonstrate that in this regime they give rise to very strong photon-photon interactions which are strong enough to make an experimental realization of a photonic Mott insulator state feasible in arrays of coupled ultrahigh- microcavities.
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