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text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><font color="#55913c" face="times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><b>Photon-blockade breakdown as a first-order dissipative phase transition in zero dimension</b></span></font></p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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text-align: center;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="markedcontent" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Dr. </span></b></span><span style="text-align: start; font-size: 18.6667px;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>András Vukics</b></font></span></p></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; 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text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I present the relatively recent concept of first-order dissipative phase transitions that can occur in meso- and even microscopic quantum systems. One of the first examples of this phenomenology was the photon-blockade breakdown (PBB) effect, that occurs most simply in a coupled system of a bosonic mode and a qubit. For PBB, an abstract thermodynamic limit has been identified [1], where the coupling between the subsystems goes to infinity without affecting the system size, and this limit was studied in a finite-size scaling approach [2], with scaling exponents determined numerically. Upon discussing the microscopic mechanism and the fully quantum solution, I will assess the neo- and semiclassical models, and the connection with optical bistability.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I describe the experimental studies: PBB was first observed in a circuit QED system [3], and the thermodynamic limit could also be modeled on this platform with a bespoke device [4]. The numerical modelling [5] of this latter set of experiments highlighted the role of the higher lying transmon levels and the phase noise.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">As an outlook, I describe a related phenomenology dubbed transmission-blockade breakdown, that was observed in the rubidium cold-atom – cavity QED lab of the Wigner Research Centre for Physics [6].</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[1] H. J. Carmichael, Phys. Rev. X 5, 031028 (2015).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[2] A. Vukics, A. Dombi, J. M. Fink, P. Domokos, Quantum 3, 150 (2019).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[3] J. M. Fink, A. Dombi, A. Vukics, A. Wallraff, and P. Domokos, Phys. Rev. X 7, 011012 (2017).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[4] R. Sett, F. Hassani, D. Phan, Sh. Barzanjeh, A. Vukics, and J. M. Fink, arXiv:2210.14182 (2022).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[5] https://github.com/vukics/cppqed</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: #ffffff; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[6] B. 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