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A frequency-tunable nanomembrane mechanical oscillator with embedded quantum dots
摘要： Hybrid systems consisting of a quantum emitter coupled to a mechanical oscillator are receiving increasing attention for fundamental science and potential applications in quantum technologies. In contrast to most of the presented works in this field, in which the oscillator eigenfrequencies are irreversibly determined by the fabrication process, we present here a simple approach to obtain frequency-tunable mechanical resonators based on suspended nanomembranes. The method relies on a micromachined piezoelectric actuator, which we use both to drive resonant oscillations of a suspended Ga(Al)As membrane with embedded quantum dots and to fine-tune their mechanical eigenfrequencies. Specifically, we excite oscillations with frequencies of at least 60 MHz by applying an AC voltage to the actuator and tune the eigenfrequencies by at least 25 times their linewidth by continuously varying the elastic stress state in the membranes through a DC voltage. The light emitted by optically excited quantum dots is used as a sensitive local strain gauge to monitor the oscillation frequency and amplitude. We expect that our method has the potential to be applicable to other optomechanical systems based on dielectric and semiconductor membranes possibly operating in the quantum regime.
关键词： nanomembrane,piezoelectric actuator,frequency-tunable,quantum dots,mechanical oscillator
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22
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Unconditional preparation of nonclassical states via linear-and-quadratic optomechanics
摘要： Reservoir engineering enables the robust and unconditional preparation of pure quantum states in noisy environments. We show how a family of nonclassical states of a mechanical oscillator can be stabilized in a cavity that is parametrically coupled to both the mechanical displacement and the displacement squared. The cavity is driven with three tones, on the red sideband, on the cavity resonance, and on the second blue sideband. The states so stabilized are (squeezed and displaced) superpositions of a finite number of phonons. They show the unique feature of encompassing two prototypes of nonclassicality for bosonic systems: by adjusting the strength of the drives, one can in fact move from a single-phonon- to a Schr?dinger-cat-like state. The scheme is deterministic, supersedes the need for measurement-and-feedback loops, and does not require initialization of the oscillator to the ground state.
关键词： mechanical oscillator,quantum states,Reservoir engineering,nonclassical states,optomechanics
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46
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Effect of the mechanical oscillator on the optical-response properties of an optical trimer system
摘要： We propose theoretically a four-mode coupled optomechanical system to explore the optical-response properties of an optical trimer system consisting of a passive cavity, a no-loss-gain cavity, and an active cavity coupled with a mechanical oscillator. In the study, the passive cavity is driven by an external laser so that the stability of the coupled system depends strongly on the gain-to-loss ratio and the photon tunneling between the adjacent cavities. We ?nd that in the regime near the stable-unstable critical point, the resonance absorption of the optical trimer system changes quickly with the increasing gain of the active cavity. In contrast, when the mechanical oscillator is coupled to the passive cavity, the center absorption peak is split and a phenomenon of optomechanically induced transparency appears. Consequently, two additional resonance peaks in the absorption pro?le are induced by the optomechanical coupling, which hinges on the tunneling between the optical cavities and also on the gain of the active cavity. The dependence of the width of the transparency window on the optomechanical coupling and the driving strength is also discussed in detail. The results obtained here indicate that the optical properties of the trimer system can be manipulated by coupling a mechanical oscillator to the system and therefore have a potential application in quantum optics and quantum information processing.
关键词： optomechanically induced transparency,quantum information processing,mechanical oscillator,quantum optics,optomechanical system,optical trimer system
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46
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Improving the cooling of a mechanical oscillator in a dissipative optomechanical system with an optical parametric amplifier
摘要： The ground-state cooling of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator is a crucial prerequisite for implementing the quantum manipulation of the mechanical oscillator. Here we show that a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA) can significantly improve the cooling of the mechanical membrane in the purely dissipative coupling system in the unresolved sideband regime. In the presence of the OPA with a parametric phase π/2, the mechanical membrane can be cooled from room temperature 293 K to 10 mK, a factor of 112 lower than that in the absence of the OPA. If the mechanical oscillator is precooled to 0.1 K, the mechanical membrane can be cooled into the microkelvin regime.
关键词： optical parametric amplifier,dissipative optomechanical system,ground-state cooling,mechanical oscillator
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14