Nonequilibrium dynamics of coupled qubit-cavity arrays

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jun 8;108(23):233603. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.233603. Epub 2012 Jun 8.

Abstract

We study the coherence and fluorescence properties of the coherently pumped and dissipative Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard model describing polaritons in a coupled-cavity array. At weak hopping we find strong signatures of photon blockade similar to single-cavity systems. At strong hopping the state of the photons in the array depends on its size. While the photon blockade persists in a dimer consisting of two coupled cavities, a coherent state forms on an extended lattice, which can be described in terms of a semiclassical model.