7 research outputs found
Hybrid cavity mechanics with doped systems
We investigate the dynamics of a mechanical resonator in which is embedded an
ensemble of two-level systems interacting with an optical cavity field. We show
that this hybrid approach to optomechanics allows for enhanced effective
interactions between the mechanics and the cavity field, leading for instance
to ground state cooling of the mechanics, even in regimes, like the unresolved
sideband regime, in which standard radiation pressure cooling would be
inefficient.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
Increasing entanglement between Gaussian states by coherent photon subtraction
We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement between Gaussian
entangled states can be increased by non-Gaussian operations. Coherent
subtraction of single photons from Gaussian quadrature-entangled light pulses,
created by a non-degenerate parametric amplifier, produces delocalized states
with negative Wigner functions and complex structures, more entangled than the
initial states in terms of negativity. The experimental results are in very
good agreement with the theoretical predictions
Heat transport in harmonic oscillator systems with thermal baths : application to optomechanical arrays
We investigate the transport of phonons between N harmonic oscillators in contact with independent
thermal baths and coupled to a common oscillator, and derive an expression for the steady state heat
flow between the oscillators in the weak coupling limit.We apply these results to an optomechanical
array consisting of a pair of mechanical resonators coupled to a single quantized electromagnetic field
mode by radiation pressure as well as to thermal baths with different temperatures. In the weak
coupling limit this system is shown to be equivalent to two mutually-coupled harmonic oscillators in
contact with an effective common thermal bath in addition to their independent baths. The steady
state occupation numbers and heat flows are derived and discussed in various regimes of interest.This work was supported by the COST Action MP1209 ‘Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime’, and the
Danish Council for Independent Research (Sapere Aude program).peer-reviewe
Dynamics of a pulsed continuous variable quantum memory
6 pages, 5 figuresInternational audienceWe study the transfer dynamics of non-classical fluctuations of light to the ground-state collective spin components of an atomic ensemble during a pulsed quantum memory sequence, and evaluate the relevant physical quantities to be measured in order to characterize such a quantum memory. We show in particular that the fluctuations stored into the atoms are emitted in temporal modes which are always different than those of the readout pulse, but which can nevertheless be retrieved efficiently using a suitable temporal mode-matching technique. We give a simple toy model - a cavity with variable transmission - which accounts for the behavior of the atomic quantum memory
Multimode model for projective photon-counting measurements
14 pages, 9 figuresInternational audienceWe present a general model to account for the multimode nature of the quantum electromagnetic field in projective photon-counting measurements. We focus on photon-subtraction experiments, where non-gaussian states are produced conditionally. These are useful states for continuous-variable quantum information processing. We present a general method called mode reduction that reduces the multimode model to an effective two-mode problem. We apply this method to a multimode model describing broadband parametric downconversion, thereby improving the analysis of existing experimental results. The main improvement is that spatial and frequency filters before the photon detector are taken into account explicitly. We find excellent agreement with previously published experimental results, using fewer free parameters than before, and discuss the implications of our analysis for the optimized production of states with negative Wigner functions