Squeezed states in two-phonon devices

Xuedong Hu, Franco Nori

Jianbo Hu, O. V. Misochko, Kazutaka G. Nakamura

Two-phonon bound states have been excited exclusively in ZnTe(110) via impulsive stimulated second-order Raman scattering, essentially being squeezed states due to phase coherent excitation of two identical components anticorrelated in the wave vector. By using coherent control technique with a pair of femtosecond laser pulses, the manipulation of squeezed states has been demonstrated in which both the amplitude and lifetime of coherent oscillations of squeezed states are modulated, indicating the feasibility to control the quantum noise and the quantum nature of phonon squeezed states, respectively.

Chi‐Fai Lo, Roger Sollie

Hong Chen, Yumei Zhang, Xiang Xia Wu

The ground state of the model of a two-state system coupled with phonons is studied by a variational method. Two trial states, the displaced state, and the displaced-squeezed state, for the phonon subsystem are compared, and their dependence on tunneling parameter \ensuremath{\Delta}, phonon frequency \ensuremath{\omega}, and coupling strength g is analyzed. We find that for \ensuremath{\Delta}/\ensuremath{\omega}\ensuremath{\ll}1 the displaced state is more stable for g/\ensuremath{\omega}<1, while the displaced-squeezed state is preferable for g/\ensuremath{\omega}>1.

Anthony M. Bloch, Alberto G. Rojo

Anthony M. Bloch, Alberto G. Rojo