Spin-Exchange-Controlled Nonclassical Light in Cavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
Abstract
Controlling nonclassical light while maintaining a finite cavity response requires selective suppression of unwanted multiphoton excitation. We investigate a ring-cavity system containing two three-level emitters coupled by a coherent spin-exchange interaction, where electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) provides resonant access to a dark-state polariton. The exchange interaction shifts the polariton resonance while modifying the dressed two-photon excitation pathways. Strong photon antibunching emerges when the one-polariton resonance nearly coincides with a destructive-interference minimum of the second-photon transition amplitude. By jointly tuning the exchange interaction and control-field strength, pronounced photon blockade with a finite intracavity population can be sustained over an extended interaction range. We further show that the relative cavity-coupling phase redistributes optical coupling between symmetric and antisymmetric collective channels with opposite exchange shifts, allowing the photon statistics to switch between antibunching and bunching at fixed exchange strength. This mechanism provides a possible route to tunable nonclassical-light sources based on coherent control of collective excitation pathways.
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BibTeX
@misc{tang2026spinexchangecontrolled,
title = {{Spin-Exchange-Controlled Nonclassical Light in Cavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency}},
author = {Jing Tang and Junyu Su and Jie Chen and Ziyang Li and Yuangang Deng},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.07382},
eprint = {2611.07382},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07382},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Spin-Exchange-Controlled Nonclassical Light in Cavity Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
AU - Jing Tang
AU - Junyu Su
AU - Jie Chen
AU - Ziyang Li
AU - Yuangang Deng
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.07382
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07382
AB - Controlling nonclassical light while maintaining a finite cavity response requires selective suppression of unwanted multiphoton excitation. We investigate a ring-cavity system containing two three-level emitters coupled by a coherent spin-exchange interaction, where electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) provides resonant access to a dark-state polariton. The exchange interaction shifts the polariton resonance while modifying the dressed two-photon excitation pathways. Strong photon antibunching emerges when the one-polariton resonance nearly coincides with a destructive-interference minimum of the second-photon transition amplitude. By jointly tuning the exchange interaction and control-field strength, pronounced photon blockade with a finite intracavity population can be sustained over an extended interaction range. We further show that the relative cavity-coupling phase redistributes optical coupling between symmetric and antisymmetric collective channels with opposite exchange shifts, allowing the photon statistics to switch between antibunching and bunching at fixed exchange strength. This mechanism provides a possible route to tunable nonclassical-light sources based on coherent control of collective excitation pathways.
ER -