Levitated Quantum Memory for Microwave Photons

Aman Chourasia

Alkim Bozkurt, Omid Golami, Yue Yu +2 more

Chuan-Sheng Yang, Yan‐Lei Zhang, Guang‐Can Guo +1 more

Yvonne Y. Gao, Brian Lester, Serge Rosenblum +6 more

Pardeep Kumar, Mishkatul Bhattacharya

We theoretically explore a quantum memory using a single nanoparticle levitated in an optical dipole trap and subjected to feedback cooling. This protocol is realized by storing and retrieving a single-photon quantum state from a mechanical mode in levitated cavityless optomechanics. We describe the effectiveness of the photon-phonon-photon transfer in terms of the fidelity, the Wigner function, and the zero-delay second-order autocorrelation function. For experimentally accessible parameters, our numerical results indicate robust conversion of the quantum states of the input signal photon to those of the retrieved photon. We also show that high fidelity single-photon wavelength conversion is possible in the system as long as intense control pulses shorter than the mechanical damping time are used. Our work opens up the possibility of using levitated optomechanical systems for applications of quantum information processing.

Huiya Zhan, Aixi Chen, Wenjie Nie

We theoretically propose a cavity magnomechanical system with a levitated yttrium iron garnet sphere to study the entanglement characteristics between subsystems. The system consists of microwave photon, magnon, and mechanical phonon modes, where the photon and magnon modes can be driven by external microwave sources. We find that with the appropriate choice of the suspension position, the effective couplings between the cavity field and the magnon and phonon modes can be established, thus inducing the generation of bipartite entanglement and genuine tripartite entanglement in the system. Further, we also analyze in detail the influences of the radius of the sphere, the detunings of the cavity and magnon modes, the driving power, the frequency of the phonon mode, and the environment temperature on the characteristics of the quantum entanglement. The results obtained here indicate that the bipartite and tripartite entanglements can be manipulated by changing the radius and the oscillation frequency of the sphere in addition to changing the parameters of the cavity field, and therefore, the levitated magnomechanical system has a potential application in the study of macroscopic quantum phenomena.