Nonreciprocal Photon Transmission and Amplification via Reservoir Engineering

By A. Metelmann, A. Clerk. 2015

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We discuss a general method for constructing nonreciprocal, cavity-based photonic devices, based on matching a given coherent interaction with its corresponding dissipative counterpart; our method generalizes the basic structure used in the theory of cascaded quantum systems, and can render an extremely wide class of interactions directional. In contrast to standard interference-based schemes, our approach allows directional behavior over a wide bandwidth. We show how it can be used to devise isolators and directional, quantum-limited amplifiers. We discuss in detail how this general method allows the construction of a directional, noise-free phase-sensitive amplifier that is not limited by any fundamental gain-bandwidth constraint. Our approach is particularly well-suited to implementations using superconducting microwave circuits and optomechanical systems.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Widely Tunable On-Chip Microwave Circulator for Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2017, methodology): “This perspective is utilized in recent demonstrations [107] and proposals [121, 122, 123], which break Lorentz reciprocity with judicious use of dissipation, referred to as reservoir engineering.”
Demonstration of Efficient Nonreciprocity in a Microwave Optomechanical Circuit (2017, background): “More recently, theoretical proposals [15, 17, 21, 22] and experiments [23–25] have begun exploring the parametric coupling between an electromagnetic cavity and a mechanical oscillator as an alternative mode-coupling mechanism for nonreciprocity.”
Generalized non-reciprocity in an optomechanical circuit via synthetic magnetism and reservoir engineering (2016, methodology): “Although the presence of the synthetic flux breaks timereversal symmetry, it does not in and of itself result in nonreciprocal photon transmission magnitudes upon swapping input and output ports [25, 33].”
Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits (2017, background): “Another way to achieve directionality is to couple two resonators both through a coherent channel and through a common bath [249,250].”
Open quantum systems with local and collective incoherent processes: Efficient numerical simulations using permutational invariance (2018, background): “[26] A.”
A topological quantum optics interface (2017, background): “Ultimately, such an approach could constitute a versatile platform to explore many-body quantum physics at a topological edge (28), create chiral spin networks (27, 29), and realize fractional quantum Hall states of light (30, 31).”
Topological dissipation in a time-multiplexed photonic resonator network (2021, unknown): “Dissipative couplings indirectly couple the elements of a system through an intermediate reservoir 6,7 , such as a bath of atomic modes or the modes of a bus waveguide 8 (Fig.”
Topological photonics (2018, background): “, 2015) and nonreciprocal baths and amplifiers (Metelmann and Clerk, 2015).”