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We demonstrate a trapped-ion system with two competing dissipation channels, implemented independently on two ion species co-trapped in a Paul trap. By controlling coherent spin-oscillator couplings and optical pumping rates we explore the…

In this article we present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of phonon lasing with mixed-species trapped ions, as demonstrated in [T. Behrle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023)], employing both a semi-classical mean-field description and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 David Baur , Tanja Behrle , Ivan Rojkov , Jan Jeske , Susanne Yelin , Jonathan Home , Florentin Reiter

We propose an experimental architecture where an array of optical tweezers affords site-dependent control over the confining potential of a conventional radio-frequency ion trap. The site-dependent control enables programmable manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yi Hong Teoh , Manas Sajjan , Zewen Sun , Fereshteh Rajabi , Rajibul Islam

The system of a trapped ion translationally excited by a blue-detuned near-resonant laser, sometimes described as an instance of a phonon laser, has recently received attention as interesting in its own right and for its application to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 X. Chen , Y. -W. Lin , B. C. Odom

We propose a method to manipulate the normal modes in a chain of trapped ions using only two lasers. Linear chains of trapped ions have proven experimentally to be highly controllable quantum systems with a variety of refined techniques for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Kevin Marshall , Daniel F. V. James

The creation and manipulation of coherence continues to capture the attention of scientists and engineers. The optical laser is a canonical example of a system that, in principle, exhibits complete coherence. Recent research has focused on…

We present a theoretical model for realizing squeezed lasing in a trapped-ion system without relying on engineered baths or tailored dissipative reservoirs. Our approach leverages the intrinsic ion-phonon interactions, where two trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Chen-Yu Lee , Guin-Dar Lin

We present a novel system for the simulation of quantum phase transitions of collective internal qubit and phononic states with a linear crystal of trapped ions. The laser-ion interaction creates an energy gap in the excitation spectrum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 P. A. Ivanov , S. S. Ivanov , N. V. Vitanov , A. Mering , M. Fleischhauer , K. Singer

We show the possible excitation of a phonon laser instability in an ultra-cold atomic gas confined in a magneto-optical trap. Such an effect results from a negative Landau damping of the collective density perturbations in the gas, leading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-20 J. T. Mendonça , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , H. Terças

Effective transition between the population-inverted optical eigenmodes of two coupled microcavities carrying mechanical oscillation realizes a phonon analogue of optical two-level laser. By providing an approach that linearizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Bing He , Liu Yang , Min Xiao

The quantum phonon laser state is a vibrational state generated by phonon coherent amplification based on quantum mechanics. Its core is coherent excitation and manipulation of phonon quantum states by controlling phonon dynamics. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Dong Yuanzhang , He Siwen , Deng Zhijiao , Li Peidong , Chen Liang , Feng Mang

Phonon lasers, as the counterpart of photonic lasers, have been intensively studied in a large variety of systems, however, (all) most of them are based on the directly coherent pumping. Intuitively, dissipation is an unfavorable factor for…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Qiankun Zhang , Cheng Yang , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

A phase-controlled ultralow-threshold phonon laser is proposed by using tunable optical amplifiers in coupled-cavity-optomechanical system. Giant enhancement of coherent photon-phonon interactions is achieved by engineering the strengths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Yan-Lei Zhang , Chang-Ling Zou , Chuan-Sheng Yang , Hui Jing , Chun-Hua Dong , Guang-Can Guo , Xu-Bo Zou

An atomic transition can be addressed by a single tooth of an optical frequency comb if the excited state lifetime ($\tau$) is significantly longer than the pulse repetition period ($T_\mathrm{r}$). In the crossover regime between…

A mode locked fibre laser as a source of ultra-stable pulse train has revolutionised a wide range of fundamental and applied research areas by offering high peak powers, high repetition rates, femtosecond range pulse widths and a narrow…

The phonon analog of an optical laser has become the focus of research. We theoretically study phonon laser in a cavity magnomechanical system, which consist of a microwave cavity, a small ferromagnetic sphere and an uniform external bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Ming-Song Ding , Li Zheng , Chong Li

We make an adaptation of laser modelling equations to describe the behavior of a phonon laser (saser). Our saser consists of an AlGaAs/GaAs double barrier heterostructure designed to generate an intense beam of transversal acoustic (TA)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. Camps , S. S. Makler

We study a general theory of phonon lasing [I. S. Grudinin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 083901 (2010)] in coupled optomechancial systems. We derive the dynamical equation of the phonon lasing using supermodes formed by two cavity modes. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 Hui Wang , Zhixin Wang , Jing Zhang , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Lan Yang , Yu-xi Liu

A cold atomic gas with an inverted population on a transition coupled to a field mode of an optical resonator constitutes a generic model of a laser. For quasi-continuous operation, external pumping, trapping and cooling of the atoms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Christoph Hotter , David Plankensteiner , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

A novel lasing scheme for terahertz quantum cascade lasers, based on consecutive phonon-photon-phonon emissions per module, is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The charge transport of the proposed structure is modeled using a rate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Dupont , S. Fathololoumi , Z. R. Wasilewski , G. Aers , S. R. Laframboise , M. Lindskog , A. Wacker , D. Ban , H. C. Liu
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