arXiv:1507.01718 · Physical Review A

Generation of stable entanglement between two cavity mirrors by squeezed-reservoir engineering

Chun-Jie Yang, Jun‐Hong An, Wanli Yang, Yong Li

Published Dec 7, 2015• 58 citations

Abstract

The generation of quantum entanglement of macroscopic or mesoscopic bodies in mechanical motion is generally bounded by the thermal fluctuation exerted by their environments. Here we propose a scheme to establish stationary entanglement between two mechanically oscillating mirrors of a cavity. It is revealed that, by applying a broadband squeezed laser acting as a squeezed-vacuum reservoir to the cavity, a stable entanglement between the mechanical mirrors can be generated. Using the adiabatic elimination and master equation methods, we analytically find that the generated entanglement is essentially determined by the squeezing of the relative momentum of the mechanical mirrors, which is transferred from the squeezed reservoir through the cavity. Numerical verification indicates that our scheme is within the present experimental state of the art of optomechanics.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.92.062311

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