arXiv:1809.05266 · Physical Review A

Linear and quadratic reservoir engineering of non-Gaussian states

Matteo Brunelli, Oussama Houhou

Published Jul 16, 2019• 28 citations

Abstract

We study the dissipative preparation of pure non-Gaussian states of a target mode which is coupled both linearly and quadratically to an auxiliary damped mode. We show that any pure state achieved independently of the initial condition is either (i) a cubic phase state, namely, a state given by the action of a non-Gaussian (cubic) unitary on a squeezed vacuum or (ii) a (squeezed and displaced) finite superposition of Fock states. Which of the two states is realized depends on whether the transformation induced by the engineered reservoir on the target mode is canonical (i) or not (ii). We discuss how to prepare these states in an optomechanical cavity driven with multiple control lasers, by tuning the relative strengths and phases of the drives. Relevant examples in (ii) include the stabilization of mechanical Schr\"odinger-cat-like states or Fock-type states of any order. Our analysis is entirely analytical: it extends reservoir engineering to the non-Gaussian regime and enables the preparation of novel mechanical states with negative Wigner function.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.013831

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