Photon Anomalous Blockade in Waveguide Cavity QED with Atomic Mirrors
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2605.21889 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 21 May 2026] Title:Photon Anomalous Blockade in Waveguide Cavity QED with Atomic Mirrors Authors:Yang Xue, Yue Chang, Tao Shi, Yu-xi Liu View a PDF of the paper titled Photon Anomalous Blockade in Waveguide Cavity QED with Atomic Mirrors, by Yang Xue and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Waveguide cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) with atomic mirrors is a growing research area of quantum optics and can be applied to quantum information processing. We here study the photon statistics of output fields from a waveguide cavity QED system, in which the waveguide is coupled to quantized mirror atoms and one driven medium atom. Our results show that the photon blockade can occur even for a bad atom cavity with large dissipation and small coupling between the medium atom and the cavity, in contrast to the small dissipation and the strong coupling of the medium atom to the cavity field for the conventional photon blockade or the quantum interference for the unconventional photon blockade in the cavity QED system. Utilizing both the master equation and scattering theories, we derive the condition under which the photon blockade occurs in weakly driven systems. We find that such photon anomalous blockade is due to the quantum Zeno effect and is robust against variations of the medium atom's position within the cavity. Our study paves a way to exploit the photon blockade and single-photon devices via the waveguide cavity QED. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2605.21889 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2605.21889v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.21889 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Yang Xue [view email] [v1] Thu, 21 May 2026 01:54:42 UTC (683 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Photon Anomalous Blockade in Waveguide Cavity QED with Atomic Mirrors, by Yang Xue and 2 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-05 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)