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The investigation of the ultimate limits imposed by quantum mechanics on amplification represents an important topic both on a fundamental level and from the perspective of potential applications. We propose here a novel setup for an…

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Quantum entanglement is a crucial resource in quantum technologies, enabling advancements in quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum precision measurement. Here, we propose a method to enhance optomechanical entanglement by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Yan Li , Cheng Liu , Yu-Hong Liu , Yue-Hui Zhou , Jie-Qiao Liao

We present a new model of two electrically coupled optomechanical cavities. This model is based on the recently presented [Physical Review A \textbf{103} (2021) 043509]. We found that coupling two optomechanical cavities via Coulomb force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Jan Wójcik , Grzegorz Chimczak

The excitation of soliton states in optical layers exhibiting Kerr nonlinearities is theoretically investigated. The optical transmission coefficient is obtained as a function of the nonlinearity power of an incident monochromatic…

We discuss the recently introduced concept of non-deterministic noiseless linear amplification, demonstrating that such an operation can only be performed perfectly with vanishing probability of success. We show that a weak measurement,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-26 David Menzies , Sarah Croke

Production of entangled photon pairs is important in secure communication systems, quantum computing, and fundamental physics experiments. Achieving efficient generation of such photon pairs with low-loss parametric oscillators is a key…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-12 Andrey Matsko , Abdelkrim El Amili , Lute Maleki

High-power amplifiers are of great importance in many optical systems deployed in optical sensing, ranging, medical surgery, material processing and more. Likewise, high-gain, low-noise amplifiers with low polarization dependence are…

We show that the recently demonstrated technique for generating stationary pulses of light [Nature {\bf 426}, 638 (2003)] can be extended to localize optical pulses in all three spatial dimensions in a resonant atomic medium. This method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Andre , M. Bajcsy , A. S. Zibrov , M. D. Lukin

A major goal in optomechanics is to observe and control quantum behavior in a system consisting of a mechanical resonator coupled to an optical cavity. Work towards this goal has focused on increasing the strength of the coupling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jack C. Sankey , Cheng Yang , Benjamin M. Zwickl , Andrew M. Jayich , Jack G. E. Harris

We investigate the resonant enhancement of nonlinear interactions in a three-mode cavity optomechanical system with two mechanical oscillators. By using the Keldysh Green's function technique we find that nonlinear effects on the cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Jing Qiu , Li-Jing Jin , Stefano Chesi , Ying-Dan Wang

The interaction of a single-mode field with both a weak Kerr medium and a parametric nonlinearity in an intrinsically nonlinear optomechanical system is studied. The nonlinearities due to the optomechanical coupling and Kerr-down conversion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 S. Shahidani , M. H. Naderi , M. Soltanolkotabi , Sh. Barzanjeh

We study a system consisting of a superconducting flux qubit strongly coupled to a microwave cavity. The fundamental cavity mode is externally driven and the response is investigated in the weak nonlinear regime. We find that near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Eyal Buks , Chunqing Deng , Jean-Luc F. X. Orgazzi , Martin Otto , Adrian Lupascu

Photon-pressure coupling between two superconducting circuits is a promising platform for investigating radiation-pressure coupling in novel parameter regimes and for the development of radio-frequency (RF) quantum photonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Ines C. Rodrigues , Gary A. Steele , Daniel Bothner

We identify a new four-wave mixing process in which two nearly collinear pump beams produce phase-dependent gain into a weak bisector signal beam in a self-defocusing Kerr medium. Phase matching is achieved by weak-wave advancement caused…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 C. F. McCormick , R. Y. Chiao , J. M. Hickmann

Single-mode Josephson junction-based parametric amplifiers are often modeled as perfect amplifiers and squeezers. We show that, in practice, the gain, quantum efficiency, and output field squeezing of these devices are limited by usually…

We investigate a hybrid electro-optomechanical system that allows us to obtain controllable strong Kerr nonlinearities in the weak-coupling regime. We show that when the controllable electromechanical subsystem is close to its quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Xin-You Lü , Wei-Min Zhang , Sahel Ashhab , Ying Wu , Franco Nori

We propose a new method of resonant enhancement of optical Kerr nonlinearity using multi-level atomic coherence. The enhancement is accompanied by suppression of the other linear and nonlinear susceptibility terms of the medium. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. B. Matsko , I. Novikova , G. R. Welch , M. S. Zubairy

We explore amplification and cross-Kerr nonlinearity by a three-level emitter (3LE) embedded in a waveguide and driven by two light beams. The coherent amplification and cross-Kerr nonlinearity were demonstrated in recent experiments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Athul Vinu , Dibyendu Roy

I show that an optical amplifier, when combined with photon subtraction, can be used for quantum state amplification, adding noise at a level below the standard minimum. The device could be used to significantly decrease the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 John Jeffers

We report on Kerr nonlinearity and dispersive optical bistability of a Fabry-Perot optical resonator due to the displacement of ultracold atoms trapped within. In the driven resonator, such collective motion is induced by optical forces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Subhadeep Gupta , Kevin L. Moore , Kater W. Murch , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn