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Physical Review A

Generation of an entangled traveling photon-phonon pair in an optomechanical resonator-waveguide system

Zhenshan S. Yang, Xia Zhang, Minghong Wang, Chenglin Bai

Published Jul 6, 2017• 5 citations
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Abstract

We show that an entangled traveling photon-phonon pair can be generated in a resonator-waveguide structure via optomechanical interaction. We employ the ``backward Heisenberg picture'' approach to write an analytic expression for the output quantum state, from which the generation efficiency and the entanglement of the photon-phonon pair are calculated. We find that the photon-phonon entanglement can be manipulated by adjusting the spectral width of the input pulse.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.96.013805

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