2017/03/06 by H. Seok, Hyojun Seok, E. M. Wright
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Classical mechanics #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Dissipation #Field (mathematics) #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Phonon #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.95.053844
published as Phys. Rev. A 95, 053844 (2017)
arxiv created 2017/03/06 · openalex publication_date 2017/05/17 · arxiv updated 2017/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We theoretically analyze antibunching of the phonon field in an optomechanical oscillator employing the membrane-in-the-middle geometry. More specifically, a single-mode mechanical oscillator is quadratically coupled to a single-mode cavity field in the regime in which the cavity dissipation is a dominant source of damping, and adiabatic elimination of the cavity field leads to an effective cubic nonlinearity for the mechanics. We show analytically in the weak-coupling regime that the mechanics displays a chaotic phonon field for small optomechanical cooperativity, whereas an antibunched single-phonon field appears for large optomechanical cooperativity. This opens the door to control of the second-order correlation function of a mechanical oscillator in the weak-coupling regime.