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Surface phonon polaritons are hybrid modes of photons and optical phonons that can propagate on the surface of a polar dielectric. In this work, we show that the precise combination of confinement and bandwidth offered by surface phonon…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer , Marin Soljacic

We study photon, phonon statistics and the cross-correlation between photons and phonons in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. Photon blockade, phonon blockade and strongly anticorrelated photons and phonons can be observed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Xun-Wei Xu , Hai-Quan Shi , Ai-Xi Chen , Yu-xi Liu

The implementation of a superradiant laser as an active frequency standard is predicted to provide better short-term stability and robustness to thermal and mechanical fluctuations when compared to standard passive optical clocks. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Anna Bychek , Helmut Ritsch

Multiphonon state plays an important role in quantum information processing and quantum metrology. Here we propose a scheme to realize dynamical emission of phonon pairs based on the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Fen Zou , Jie-Qiao Liao , Yong Li

Tilted lattice potentials with periodic driving play a crucial role in the study of artificial gauge fields and topological phases with ultracold quantum gases. However, driving-induced heating and the growth of phonon modes restrict their…

We demonstrate theoretically that the single-photon purity of photons emitted from a quantum dot exciton prepared by phonon-assisted off-resonant excitation can be significantly higher in a wide range of parameters than that obtained by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Michael Cosacchi , Florian Ungar , Moritz Cygorek , Alexei Vagov , Vollrath Martin Axt

A theoretical analysis of the subharmonic generation process in an acoustical resonator (interferometer) with plane walls is performed. It is shown that, when both the pumping wave and the generated subharmonic are detuned with respect to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 Victor J. Sanchez-Morcillo , Victor Espinosa , Javier Redondo , Jesus Alba

We theoretically study the unique applications of optomechanics based on traveling-wave microresonators, where the optomechanical coupling of degenerate modes can be enhanced selectively by optically pumping in different directions. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yan-Lei Zhang , Chun-Hua Dong , Chang-Ling Zou , Xu-Bo Zou , Ying-Dan Wang , Guang-Can Guo

Lasers differ from other light sources in that they are coherent, and their coherence makes them indispensable to both fundamental research and practical application. In optomechanical cavities, phonon and photon lasing is facilitated by…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-16 Jian Xiong , Zhilei Huang , Kaiyu Cui , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Wei Zhang , Yidong Huang

Self-oscillators are intriguing due to their ability to sustain periodic motion without periodic stimulus. They remain rare as achieving such behavior requires a balance of energy input, dissipation and non-linear feedback mechanism. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-03 Riccardo Zinelli , Zijia Wu , Christian A. Nijhuis , Qianqi Lin

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

We demonstrate that when the frequency of the external field differs from the lasing frequency of an autonomous spaser, the spaser exhibits stochastic oscillations at low field intensity. The plasmon oscillations lock to the frequency of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. S. Andrianov , A. A. Pukhov , A. V. Dorofeenko , A. P. Vinogradov , A. A. Lisyansky

In this paper we study photon emission in the interaction of the laser beam with an under-dense target and the attached reflecting plasma mirror. Photons are emitted due to the inverse Compton scattering when accelerated electrons interact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , Y. J. Gu , S. Weber

Photons of a laser beam driving the upper motional sideband of an optomechanical cavity can decay into photon-phonon pairs by means of an optomechanical parametric process. The phononic state can subsequently be mapped to a photonic state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 V. Caprara Vivoli , T. Barnea , C. Galland , N. Sangouard

This is a part of an overview of my early studies on nonlinear spin-phonon dynamics in solid state optical-wavelength phonon lasers (phasers) started in 1984. The main goal of this work is a short description and a qualitative analysis of…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-04 D. N. Makovetskii

The purpose of this tutorial paper is to present a broad overview of photon-pair generation through the spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) process in optical fibers. Progress in optical fiber technology means that today we have at our…

The hybrid microwave optomechanical-magnetic system has recently emerged as a promising candidate for coherent information processing because of the ultrastrong microwave photon-magnon coupling and the longlife of the magnon and phonon. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Chengsong Zhao , Xun Li , Shilei Chao , Rui Peng , Chong Li , Ling Zhou

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…

The motion of channeled particles is accompanied by the phonon emission. This feature can be used for the stimulated generation of phonons with large wave vectors and frequencies.

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-07 Gennady V. Kovalev

This work theoretically investigates high-order harmonic generation in rare gas atoms driven by two temporally delayed ultrashort laser pulses. Apart from their temporal delay, the two pulses are identical. Using a single-atom model of the…