Reservoir engineering of a mechanical resonator: generating a macroscopic superposition state and monitoring its decoherence

2013/08/31 by Muhammad Asjad, David Vitali · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/47/4/045502

published as J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 47, 045502 (2014) · 10 pages, 7 figures

arxiv created 2013/10/26 · arxiv updated 2014/01/31

Abstract

A deterministic scheme for generating a macroscopic superposition state of a nanomechanical resonator is proposed. The nonclassical state is generated through a suitably engineered dissipative dynamics exploiting the optomechanical quadratic interaction with a bichromatically driven optical cavity mode. The resulting driven dissipative dynamics can be employed for monitoring and testing the decoherence processes affecting the nanomechanical resonator under controlled conditions.

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