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Nonreciprocal multiphoton blockade and photon-number filtering in a rotating Kerr resonator

Lin-Peng You, Pei Zhou, Xin-Ping Lan, Jie Liu, Ya-Ya Deng, Yi-Bing Qian, Qi-Zhong Hu, Cong-Hua Yan, Bang-Pin Hou, and Lei Tang

Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 15 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/bnbz-3w72

Abstract

Multiphoton blockade (MPB) provides a versatile mechanism for generating nonclassical light with controllable photon statistics. Here, we propose a rotation-controlled scheme for realizing nonreciprocal MPB and tunable photon-number filtering in a Kerr nonlinear resonator driven by a frequency-matched multitone field. The rotation-induced Sagnac–Fizeau shift determines how far sequential resonant excitation can proceed along the anharmonic Fock-state ladder under a fixed multitone drive, thereby providing a mechanical means of controlling Fock-space accessibility. Consequently, under the same multitone driving configuration, opposite propagation directions access different depths of the excitation ladder, giving rise to distinct blockade orders. Moreover, for a fixed input direction, varying the signed angular velocity changes the accessible depth of the sequential excitation chain and thereby switches the photon-number cutoff without changing the multitone frequencies. We explicitly characterize this filtering functionality in the output field using input–output theory and number-resolved photon-counting statistics, obtaining filtering efficiencies of approximately 96.88%, 98.40%, and 99.24% for the three-, two-, and single-photon cutoffs, respectively. These results establish a systematic route to direction-dependent and rotation-reconfigurable control of multiphoton quantum states, with potential applications in nonreciprocal quantum light sources and photon-number-selective quantum photonic devices.

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