Details

Snapshot 1: polariton blockade with large interactions of the emitter recovers the Jaynes–Cumming limit

Snapshot 2: the underlying resonances, UA (unconventional antibunching) in dashed blue, CA (conventional antibunching) in solid blue, UB (unconventional bunching) in dashed red and CB (conventional bunching) in solid red

Snapshot 3: the polariton blockade in today samples corresponds to a case of very weak interactions, with closely packed features

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