Optics Express

Controlling magnon-magnon entanglement and steering by atomic coherence

Lili Zheng, Wenxing Shi, Kang Shen, Deyi Kong, Fei Wang

Published Jul 24, 2023• 5 citations

Abstract

Here we show that it is possible to control magnon-magnon entanglement in a hybrid magnon-atom-cavity system based on atomic coherence. In a four-level V-type atomic system, two strong fields are applied to drive two dipole-allowed transitions and two microwave cavity modes are coupled with two dipole forbidden transitions as well as two magnon modes simultaneously. It is found that the stable magnon-magnon entanglement, one-way steering and two-way EPR steering can be generated and controlled by atomic coherence according to the following two points: (i) the coherent coupling between magnon and atoms is established via exchange of virtual photons; (ii) the dissipation of magnon mode is dominant over amplification since one of the atomic states mediated one-channel interaction always keeps empty. The coherent control of magnon-magnon correlations provides an effective approach to modify macroscopic quantum effects using the laser-driven atomic systems.

DOI: 10.1364/oe.493946

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