Path Complementarity Enables Directional Quantum Light in Hybridized Cavity Polaritons

Jing Tang; Yuangang Deng

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Path Complementarity Enables Directional Quantum Light in Hybridized Cavity Polaritons

Jing Tang·Yuangang Deng

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Directional quantum light requires asymmetric photon statistics without sacrificing coherence between propagation paths, a combination that remains difficult to achieve within a single quantum-optical platform. Here we identify a microscopic path-complementarity mechanism in hybridized cavity polaritons that reconciles these two requirements. In a Zeeman-split ring-cavity QED system, cavity backscattering hybridizes the counterpropagating modes, whereas the Zeeman splitting creates spectrally asymmetric excitation channels. Their interplay gives rise, under weak driving, to directional photon blockade coexisting with strong single-photon path entanglement: one input direction exhibits antibunching while the opposite direction is bunched. Remarkably, switching between the two one-photon polariton resonances reverses both the photon-statistical and intensity asymmetries while nearly preserving the path concurrence over a broad parameter regime. Our results establish path complementarity as a general design principle for directional nonclassical light with retained quantum coherence.

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Jing Tang, Yuangang Deng. 2026-10-07. Path Complementarity Enables Directional Quantum Light in Hybridized Cavity Polaritons. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.09893

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