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We analyze cooling of a nano-mechanical resonator coupled to a dissipative solid state two level system focusing on the regime of high initial temperatures. We derive an effective Fokker-Planck equation for the mechanical mode which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Rabl

The transport of sound and heat, in the form of phonons, can be limited by disorder-induced scattering. In electronic and optical settings the introduction of chiral transport, in which carrier propagation exhibits parity asymmetry, can…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-12 Seunghwi Kim , Xunnong Xu , Jacob M. Taylor , Gaurav Bahl

We study the simplest optomechanical system with a focus on the bistable regime. The covariance matrix formalism allows us to study both cooling and entanglement in a unified framework. We identify two key factors governing entanglement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Ghobadi , A. R. Bahrampour , C. Simon

Resolved-sideband cooling is a standard technique in cavity optomechanics enabling quantum control of mechanical motion, but its performance is ultimately limited by quantum backaction heating. This fundamental effect imposes a limit on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Surangana Sengupta , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold , Ciprian Padurariu

Ground state cooling of massive mechanical objects remains a difficult task restricted by the unresolved mechanical sidebands. We propose an optomechanically-induced-transparency cooling scheme to achieve ground state cooling of mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-20 Yong-Chun Liu , Yun-Feng Xiao , Xingsheng Luan , Chee Wei Wong

Mechanical oscillators can be cooled by coupling them to an optical or microwave cavity. Going beyond the standard quantum noise approach we find an analytic expression for the steady-state phonon number in systems where the position of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 Talitha Weiss , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Laser cooling of a mechanical mode of a resonator by the radiation pressure of a detuned optical cavity mode has been recently demonstrated by various groups in different experimental configurations. Here we consider the effect of a second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-05 Claudiu Genes , David Vitali , Paolo Tombesi

Ground-state cooling of mechanical resonators is a prerequisite for the observation of various quantum effects in optomechanical systems and thus has always been a crucial task in quantum optomechanics. In this paper, we study how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Lei Du , Juliette Monsel , Witlef Wieczorek , Janine Splettstoesser

Sideband cooling is a technique that potentially allows mechanical resonators to be prepared in their ground states, important for future applications in quantum technologies. Tian has recently shown that side-band cooling can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 Kurt Jacobs , Hendra I. Nurdin , Frederick W. Strauch , Matthew James

We present a fully quantum theory describing the cooling of a cantilever coupled via radiation pressure to an illuminated optical cavity. Applying the quantum noise approach to the fluctuations of the radiation pressure force, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-22 Florian Marquardt , Joe P. Chen , A. A. Clerk , S. M. Girvin

Ground state cooling of micromechanical oscillator is a paradigmatic goal for observing quantum mechanical effects in cavity optomechanics. We study theoretically the ground state cooling of a mechanical oscillator in an optomechanical…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-25 Bijita Sarma , Amarendra K. Sarma

We present an experimental study of dynamical back-action cooling of the fundamental vibrational mode of a thin semitransparent membrane placed within a high-finesse optical cavity. We study how the radiation pressure interaction modifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 M. Karuza , C. Molinelli , M. Galassi , C. Biancofiore , R. Natali , P. Tombesi , G. Di Giuseppe , D. Vitali

A sideband cooling strategy that incorporates (i) the dynamics induced by structured (non-Markovian) environments in the target and auxiliary systems and (ii) the optimally-time-modulated interaction between them is developed. For the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Johan F. Triana , Andrés F. Estrada , Leonardo A. Pachon

In the paper we study the nonlinear mechanical cooling processes in the intrinsic quadratically optomechanical coupling system without linearizing the optomechanical interaction. We apply the scattering theory to calculate the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Wen-ju Gu , Zhen Yi , Li-hui Sun , Da-hai Xu

The energy transfer between different subsystems or different vibration modes is always one of the most interested problems in the study of the resonance phenomena in coupled nonlinear dynamical systems. With an optomechanical system…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-12 Qing Lin , Yi Wu , Gang Li , Bing He

In the usual optomechanical systems, the stability of the systems severely limits those researches of the macroscopic quantum effects. We study an usual cavity optomechanical system where the frequency of the optical mode is shaken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Dong-Yang Wang , Cheng-Hua Bai , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

Optomechanical systems show tremendous promise for high sensitivity sensing of forces and modification of mechanical properties via light. For example, similar to neutral atoms and trapped ions, laser cooling of mechanical motion by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Xunnong Xu , Thomas Purdy , Jacob M. Taylor

We propose to use the resonant enhancement of the parametric instability in an optomechanical system of two optical modes coupled to a mechanical oscillator to prepare mechanical states with sub-Poissonian phonon statistics. Strong single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Niels Lörch , Klemens Hammerer

Effects of resonant acoustic phonon scattering on magnetoresistivity are examined in two-dimensional electron systems at low temperatures by using a balance-equation magnetotransport scheme direct controlled by the current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 X. L. Lei

Optomechanical cavities in the well-resolved-sideband regime are ideally suited for the study of a myriad of quantum phenomena with mechanical systems, including backaction-evading measurements, mechanical squeezing, and generation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Liu Qiu , Itay Shomroni , Paul Seidler , Tobias J. Kippenberg