Physical Review A
Dissipation-assisted generation of steady-state single-mode squeezing of collective excitations in a solid-state spin ensemble
Sheng-li Ma, Fuli Li, Aiping Fang, Shaoyan Gao, Fuli Li
Abstract
A hybrid device consisting of a nitrogen-vacancy-center ensemble $($NVE$)$ in diamond magnetically coupled to a superconducting flux qubit is investigated. The flux qubit is suitably driven by a bichromatic microwave field to induce sidebands, which leads to the desired qubit-NVE coupling. The distinct feature of the present scheme is that the qubit decay as a resource is utilized to steer the stationary state of the NVE into a single-mode squeezed vacuum state via a dissipative repumping process.