Gravitational generation of quantum entanglement on squeezed coherent states in a system of two quantum mechanical particles is explored. The particles are modeled as harmonic oscillators, and their gravitational interaction is described by an interaction potential. Dynamics of the gravi- tationally induced entanglement is explored using the linear entropy of entanglement. An analytical expression for the linear entropy is obtained via Gaussian integration and covariance method. In the short-time weakly coupled regime, it is observed that the entanglement is proportional to the square of the time interval, square of the interaction strength, and proportional to the squeezing parameters of the modes. These results provide insights into the effects of quantum squeezing on entanglement generation in systems with gravitational interactions. Analytically and numerically it is shown that momentum squeezing can enhance gravitationally induced quantum entanglement.
Quantum squeezing, as a typical quantum effect, is an important resource for many applications in quantum technologies. Here we propose a scheme for generating quantum squeezing, including the ponderomotive squeezing and the mechanical squeezing, in an optomechanical system, in which the radiation-pressure coupling and the mechanical spring constant are modulated periodically. In this system, the radiation-pressure interaction can be enhanced remarkably by the modulation-induced mechanical parametric amplification. Moreover, the effective phonon noise can be suppressed completely by introducing a squeezed vacuum reservoir. This ultimately leads to that our scheme can achieve a controllable quantum squeezing. Numerical calculations show that our scheme is experimentally realizable with current technologies.
We propose an experimentally feasible method for enhancing the atom-field coupling as well as the ratio between this coupling and dissipation (i.e., cooperativity) in an optical cavity. It exploits optical parametric amplification to exponentially enhance the atom-cavity interaction and, hence, the cooperativity of the system, with the squeezing-induced noise being completely eliminated. Consequently, the atom-cavity system can be driven from the weak-coupling regime to the strong-coupling regime for modest squeezing parameters, and even can achieve an effective cooperativity much larger than 100. Based on this, we further demonstrate the generation of steady-state nearly maximal quantum entanglement. The resulting entanglement infidelity (which quantifies the deviation of the actual state from a maximally entangled state) is exponentially smaller than the lower bound on the infidelities obtained in other dissipative entanglement preparations without applying squeezing. In principle, we can make an arbitrarily small infidelity. Our generic method for enhancing atom-cavity interaction and cooperativities can be implemented in a wide range of physical systems, and it can provide diverse applications for quantum information processing.