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Quantum Approach to Damped Three Coupled Nano‐Optomechanical Oscillators

Jeong Ryeol Choi, Salah Menouar

Published Jan 1, 2021• 2 citations
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Abstract

We investigate quantum features of three coupled dissipative nano‐optomechanical oscillators. The Hamiltonian of the system is somewhat complicated due not only to the coupling of the optomechanical oscillators but to the dissipation in the system as well. In order to simplify the problem, a spatial unitary transformation approach and a matrix‐diagonalization method are used. From such procedures, the Hamiltonian is eventually diagonalized. In other words, the complicated original Hamiltonian is transformed to a simple one which is associated to three independent simple harmonic oscillators. By utilizing such a simplification of the Hamiltonian, complete solutions (wave functions) of the Schrödinger equation for the optomechanical system are obtained. We confirm that the probability density converges to the origin of the coordinate in a symmetric manner as the optomechanical energy dissipates. The wave functions that we have derived can be used as a basic tool for evaluating diverse quantum consequences of the system, such as quadrature fluctuations, entanglement entropy, energy evolution, transition probability, and the Wigner function.

DOI
10.1155/2021/1103419

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We study a many-body system consisting of a central harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a reservoir of a large number of oscillators. To get the quantal description of the central oscillator we use normal-ordering operators and the coherent-state representation in order to solve the Schr\"odinger equation for the complete system. Then, it is shown that the wave function for the total system allows one to obtain the following results: (i) The expectation value of the coordinate of the central oscillator is the same as the classical solution for the damped harmonic oscillator and (ii) the energy of the central oscillator decays towards the correct zero-point energy.