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arXiv:1109.0790 · Physical Review A

Photon-phonon entanglement in coupled optomechanical arrays

Uzma Akram, William J. Munro, Kae Nemoto, Gerard J Milburn

Published Oct 4, 2012• 77 citations
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Abstract

We consider an array of three optomechanical cavities coupled either reversibly or irreversibly to each other and calculate the amount of entanglement between the different optical and mechanical modes. We show that the composite system exhibits intercavity photon-phonon entanglement.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.86.042306

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