Enhancing Nonreciprocity through Squeezing-Induced Symmetry Breaking
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 253602 – Published 24 June, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kh36-7z76
Abstract
Reservoir engineering enables unidirectional energy and signal flow. We establish squeezing-induced symmetry breaking between two cavities as a guiding principle for exponentially amplifying reservoir-mediated nonreciprocity. Rather than a simple scaling of the coupling, this mechanism strategically redistributes the squeezing resources to relax experimental requirements, as single-cavity squeezing alone demands a much larger squeezing strength. Moreover, reservoir squeezing does not alter the system symmetry but reshapes the noise correlations and thereby changes the system dynamics. The proposed mechanism improves the performance of the quantum battery by several orders of magnitude, including stored energy, charging power, and ergotropy, with the analytical expressions provided. Extending to the optical isolation, we observe a second-order exponential enhancement of the output signal. Our results open a new avenue for nonreciprocal quantum information processing and nonreciprocal quantum device design.
