Hyperradiance, photon blockade and concurrence in a pair of qubits inside a driven cavity

Abstract

We theoretically study the radiance properties of a pair of qubits inside a single-mode cavity driven by a two-photon drive. Our results show that, when the two qubits are strongly coupled to the cavity field, the collective radiation emitted from the qubits exhibits hyperradiance which can be detected as a signature of two qubit entanglement in the weak-driving regime. We quantify the entanglement in terms of concurrence. Additionally, we study the radiance behaviour in the presence of an intracavity Kerr-nonlinear medium that leads to two-photon blockade. Our results suggest that this system with nonlinearity may act as a quadrature-squeezed and hyperradiant two-photon source.