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We present a simple and effective method to create highly entangled spin states on a faster timescale than that of the commonly employed one-axis twisting (OAT) model. We demonstrate that by periodically driving the Dicke Hamiltonian at a…

We quantify how squeezed light can reduce quantum measurement noise to levels below the standard quantum limit in impulse measurements with mechanical detectors. The broadband nature of the signal implies that frequency-dependent squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Tsai-Chen Lee , Jacob L. Beckey , Giacomo Marocco , Daniel Carney

A mechanical system can be optimally controlled through continuous measurements of its position followed by feedback. We revisit the complete formalism for predicting the performance of such as system without invoking the standard rotating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Frederik Werner Isaksen , Ulrik Lund Andersen

We consider a three-mode electro-optomechanical system in which a mechanical oscillator is coupled to an optical cavity and a LC circuit through radiation pressure and capacitive coupling, respectively. By controlling the two-tone driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Qing-Min Zeng , A-Peng Liu , Qi Guo

We experimentally surpass the 3dB limit to steady state parametric squeezing of a mechanical oscillator. The localization of a AFM cantilever, achieved by optimal estimation, is enhanced by up to 6.2 dB in one position quadrature when a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Alex Szorkovszky , George A. Brawley , Andrew C. Doherty , Warwick P. Bowen

We propose and analyze a scheme to generate squeezed light by storing a classical probe pulse in a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) and exploiting the nonlinear evolution caused by atom--atom collisions during the storage time. A…

Squeezed states of light enable enhanced measurement precision by reducing noise below the standard quantum limit. A key application of squeezed light is nonlinear microscopy, where state-of-the-art performance is limited by photodamage and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alex Terrasson , Lars Madsen , Joel Grim , Warwick Bowen

Dynamical decoupling is a coherent control technique where the intrinsic and extrinsic couplings of a quantum system are effectively averaged out by application of specially designed driving fields (refocusing pulse sequences). This entails…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonid P. Pryadko , Gregory Quiroz

The ability to control the motion of mechanical systems through its interaction with light has opened the door to a plethora of applications in fundamental and applied physics. With experiments routinely reaching the quantum regime, the…

The squeezed state is important in quantum metrology and quantum information. The most effective generation tool known is the optical parametric oscillator (OPO). Currently, only the squeezed states of lower-order spatial modes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Long Ma , Hui Guo , Hengxin Sun , Kui Liu , Bida Su , Jiangrui Gao

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control is used for automatically regulating a measurable quantity to a desired setpoint. It is widely used in different types of classical control electronics. Here, we show how extending the feedback…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Alberto Hijano , Tero T. Heikkilä

An experimentally feasible magnetometer based on a dual-coupling optomechanical system is proposed, where the radiation-pressure coupling transduces the magnetic signal to the optical phase, and the quadratic optomechanical interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Gui-Lei Zhu , Jing Liu , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

We show that by displacing two optical lattices with respect to each other, we may produce interactions similar to the ones describing ferro-magnetism in condensed matter physics. We also show that particularly simple choices of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Anders Sorensen , Klaus Molmer

The generation and manipulation of multipartite entanglement and EPR steering in macroscopic systems not only play a fundamental role in exploring the nature of quantum mechanics, but are also at the core of current developments of various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Ya-Feng Jiao , Jie Wang , Dong-Yang Wang , Lei Tang , Yan Wang , Yun-Lan Zuo , Wan-Su Bao , Le-Man Kuang , Hui Jing

Mechanical degrees of freedom are natural candidates for continuous-variable quantum information processing and bosonic quantum simulations. These applications, however, require the engineering of squeezing and nonlinearities in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Stefano Marti , Uwe von Lüpke , Om Joshi , Yu Yang , Marius Bild , Andraz Omahen , Yiwen Chu , Matteo Fadel

We propose a scheme to achieve magnon (photon) blockade by using magnon squeezing within a cavity magnomechanical system under weak pump driving. Under ideal conditions, we observe a substantial magnon blockade effect, as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 M. Amazioug , D. S. Dutykh , B. Teklu , M. Asjad

Mechanical qubits offer unique advantages over other qubit platforms, primarily in terms of coherence time and possibilities for enhanced sensing applications, but their potential is constrained by the inherently weak nonlinearities and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yi-Fan Qiao , Jun-Hong An , Peng-Bo Li

Coupled optical cavities, which support normal modes, play a critical role in optical filtering, sensing, slow-light generation, and quantum state manipulation. Recent theoretical work has proposed incorporating nonlinear materials into…

We consider a small partially reflecting vibrating mirror coupled dispersively to a single optical mode of a high finesse cavity. We show this arrangement can be used to implement quantum squeezing of the mechanically oscillating mirror.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-11 M. Bhattacharya , P. -L. Giscard , P. Meystre

We propose an approach to generate strong quantum entanglement by the controllable four wave mixing mechanism in a single cavity, weak coupling optomechanical system. The optomechanical system is driven by a strong two tone pump field and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Xiang You , Yongmin Li