2021/12/16 by Yan Wang, Wang, Yan, Jin‐Lei Wu +9 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Thermal properties of materials
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2112.08562
openalex publication_date 2021/12/16 · openalex created_date 2022/10/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose how to achieve strong phonon blockade (PB) in a hybrid spin-mechanical system in the weak-coupling regime. We demonstrate the implementation of magnetically-induced two-phonon interactions between a mechanical cantilever resonator and an embedded nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, which, combined with parametric amplification of the mechanical motion, produces significantly enlarged anharmonicity in the eigenenergy spectrum. In the weak-driving regime, we show that strong PB appears in the hybrid system along with a large mean phonon number, even in the presence of strong mechanical dissipation. We also show flexible tunability of phonon statistics by controlling the strength of mechanical parametric amplification. Our work opens up prospects for the implementation of an efficient single-phonon source, with potential applications in quantum phononics and phononic quantum networks.