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Single-photon transport in waveguides chirally coupled to atoms

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We study the single-photon transport in the scheme composed by N two-level atoms chirally coupled to N + 1 one-dimensional waveguides. The single-photon transport property relates to the chirality and the interference resulting from the scattering. The outcomes provide the potential applications for the optical quantum net and the realization of single photons with ultra-narrow band.

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Acknowledgements

WBY was supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11505023 and 11447134, and the grant from SUSE under No. 2015RC40. ZFY was supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11505024 and 11447135, the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant No. 20180550944, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No. wd01151.

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Yan, WB., Zhang, FY. Single-photon transport in waveguides chirally coupled to atoms. Quantum Inf Process 20, 16 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-020-02951-8

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