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This article demonstrates that a simple phase adjustment of the driving fields can restore magnon blockade even when fabrication imperfections break the delicate interference normally required, providing a practical route to generate robust nonclassical magnon pairs. By analytically linking the optimal drive phase to coupling asymmetries and confirming it with full‑system simulations, the work bridges a gap between idealized theory and real‑world hybrid electromagnonic devices that link superconducting qubits, cavities and spin waves. The ability to toggle between classical and quantum behavior with an external knob could accelerate magnon‑based quantum transduction and information processing, although scaling the approach will still depend on maintaining low loss in both the magnetic and microwave components.
— Mark Eatherly
Summary
Magnonic systems are a promising resource for quantum technologies because of their ability to couple significantly disparate quantum platforms and the generation of nonclassical magnon states through magnon blockade has attracted growing attention. In practice, however magnon blockade relies on a destructive interference that is easily spoiled by fabrication-induced coupling asymmetries. Here we show that the relative phase between two magnon drives acts as an active compensation knob that restores this interference even when the couplings are mismatched. We study two Kittel magnon modes in a hybrid system in which a superconducting qubit coupled to a common cavity mode mediates the inter-mode interaction and we find that tuning the drive phase produces both magnon blockade and a strong violation of the classical Cauchy--Schwarz inequality. We derive the analytic condition for the phase that compensates a given coupling asymmetry and confirm it against exact numerical simulations. The drive phase thereby serves as a control knob that switches the system between classical and quantum regimes. Our results enable phase-controlled magnonic quantum information processing.