Strong photon nonlinearities and photonic mott insulators

Michael J. Hartmann; Martin B. Plenio

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.103601

Strong photon nonlinearities and photonic mott insulators

Michael J. Hartmann^*, Martin B. Plenio

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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-Q microcavities.

Original language	English
Article number	103601
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	99
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.103601
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2007

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