中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (11): 114206-114206.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab48f1

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Double-passage mechanical cooling in a coupled optomechanical system

Qing-Xia Mu(穆青霞), Chao Lang(郎潮), Wen-Zhao Zhang(张闻钊)   

  1. 1 Mathematics and Physics Department, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China;
    2 Beijing Computational Science Research Center(CSRC), Beijing 100193, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-06-12 修回日期:2019-07-31 出版日期:2019-11-05 发布日期:2019-11-05
  • 通讯作者: Wen-Zhao Zhang E-mail:zhangwz@csrc.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 2018MS056) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11605055 and 11574082).

Double-passage mechanical cooling in a coupled optomechanical system

Qing-Xia Mu(穆青霞)1, Chao Lang(郎潮)1, Wen-Zhao Zhang(张闻钊)2   

  1. 1 Mathematics and Physics Department, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China;
    2 Beijing Computational Science Research Center(CSRC), Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2019-06-12 Revised:2019-07-31 Online:2019-11-05 Published:2019-11-05
  • Contact: Wen-Zhao Zhang E-mail:zhangwz@csrc.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 2018MS056) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11605055 and 11574082).

摘要: We consider a three-mode optomechanical system where two cavity modes are coupled to a common mechanical oscillator. We focus on the resolved sideband limit and illustrate the relation between the significant parameters of the system and the instantaneous-state mean phonon number of the oscillator cooled to the ground state, particularly at the early stage of the evolution. It is worth noting that the optical coupling sets up a correlation between the two cavity modes, which has significant effect on the cooling process. Using numerical solutions, we find that the inter-cavity coupling will decrease the cooling effect when both cavities have the same effective optomechanical coupling. However, when the effective optomechanical couplings are different, the cooling effect will be strongly improved by selecting appropriate range of inter-cavity coupling.

关键词: optomechanical system, ground-state cooling, quantum optics

Abstract: We consider a three-mode optomechanical system where two cavity modes are coupled to a common mechanical oscillator. We focus on the resolved sideband limit and illustrate the relation between the significant parameters of the system and the instantaneous-state mean phonon number of the oscillator cooled to the ground state, particularly at the early stage of the evolution. It is worth noting that the optical coupling sets up a correlation between the two cavity modes, which has significant effect on the cooling process. Using numerical solutions, we find that the inter-cavity coupling will decrease the cooling effect when both cavities have the same effective optomechanical coupling. However, when the effective optomechanical couplings are different, the cooling effect will be strongly improved by selecting appropriate range of inter-cavity coupling.

Key words: optomechanical system, ground-state cooling, quantum optics

中图分类号:  (Quantum optics)

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07.10.Cm (Micromechanical devices and systems) 42.50.Wk (Mechanical effects of light on material media, microstructures and particles)