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arXiv:0908.1445 · New Journal of Physics

Entangling nanomechanical oscillators in a ring cavity by feeding squeezed light

Sumei Huang, G. S. Agarwal

Published Oct 26, 2009• 146 citations
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Abstract

A scheme is presented for entangling two separated nanomechanical oscillators by injecting broad band squeezed vacuum light and laser light into the ring cavity. We work in the resolved sideband regime. We find that in order to obtain the maximum entanglement of the two oscillators, the squeezing parameter of the input light should be about 1. We report significant entanglement over a very wide range of power levels of the pump and temperatures of the environment.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/103044

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