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arXiv:quant-ph/0701209 · Physical Review B

Two-mode squeezed states and entangled states of two mechanical resonators

Fei Xue, Yu-xi Liu, C. P. Sun, Franco Nori

Published Aug 17, 2007• 91 citations
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Abstract

We study a device consisting of a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with two sections of its loop acting as two mechanical resonators. An analog of the parametric down-conversion process in quantum optics can be realized with this device. We show that a two-mode squeezed state can be generated for two overdamped mechanical resonators, where the damping constants of the two mechanical resonators are larger than the coupling strengths between the dc-SQUID and the two mechanical resonators. Thus we show that entangled states of these two mechanical resonators can be generated.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.76.064305

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