Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate deterministic control of Mandel’s Q-parameter in off-diagonal disordered lattices while the mean photon number remains fixed. We achieve this by gradually breaking the excitation symmetry of the chiral mode pairs in a two-point coherent illumination setting.
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