Optical signatures of electron-phonon decoupling due to strong light-matter interactions
Emil V. Denning, Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Jesper Mørk
Abstract
Phonon interactions in solid-state photonics systems cause intrinsic quantum decoherence and often present the limiting factor in emerging quantum technology. Due to recent developments in nanophotonics, exciton-cavity structures with very strong light-matter coupling rates can be fabricated. We show that in such structures, a regime emerges where the decoherence is completely suppressed due to decoupling of the dominant phonon process. Using a numerically exact tensor network approach, we perform calculations in this nonperturbative, non-Markovian dynamical regime. Here, we identify a strategy for reaching near-unity photon indistinguishability and also discover an interesting phonon dressing of the exciton-cavity polaritons in the high-$Q$ regime, leading to multiple phonon sidebands when the light-matter interaction is sufficiently strong.