Abstract
We investigate the single-photon blockade (1PB) in the quasichiral regime of atom–photon interaction, where the effective coupling between the cavity and the atom is bidirectional but asymmetrical, achieved by coupling to a dissipative environment. A synthetic magnetic current ϕ is induced in the closed-loop coupling, which breaks down the reciprocity of atom–photon interaction, and can be utilized to create asymmetrical or even unidirectional effective coupling between two selected quantum states. As an example, we couple the single-atom cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) system to a strongly dissipative plasmonic cavity. We find that in the quasichiral regime, the unconventional photon blockade (UPB) and the conventional photon blockade (CPB) realize simultaneously in the condition of maximum chirality (ϕ = π/2 and 3π/2). As a result, 1PB in the quasichiral regime can combine the advantages of both UPB and CPB, demonstrating the perfect single-photon purity, higher efficiency, non-oscillating time dynamics as well as lower requirement of mode coupling to achieve UPB. Our work paves the way for 1PB towards practical applications and reveals the intriguing quantum-optics phenomena in the quasichiral light–matter interaction.
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