双腔光力学系统中输出光场纠缠特性的研究

腔光力学系统中的光辐射压力可以使系统中的各个子系统之间产生量子纠缠,最近在腔光力学系统中的量子纠缠引起了人们广泛的关注.本文研究了双腔光力系统中关于输出光场之间纠缠的性质,发现:此系统中力学振子的弛豫速率和滤波器带宽以及非相等耦合对输出光场之间纠缠的大小有着非常显著的影响,特别是在相等耦合条件下,输出光场中心频率与光腔本征频率近共振时,滤波器带宽对输出光场纠缠有着显著的抑制作用;但是如果采用非相等耦合,则可以有效抵制滤波器带宽对纠缠的抑制作用,使输出光场纠缠得到大幅提高.研究结果可应用在光力耦合系统中实现量子态转换、量子隐形传态等量子信息处理过程.     

量子计算的进展和展望

该文主要介绍了量子计算机研究的历史和现状.强调发展大规模的量子计算和实现强关联多体系统的量子模拟,是当前量子计算研究的主流.文章主体部分主要介绍了量子计算机硬件研究方面的进展,主要聚焦于几个具有qubit可集成性的量子系统:量子点系统、超导约瑟夫森结系统、离于阱系统、腔量子电动力学系统,作为实现量子计算机的最主要的候选系统,上述方向的研究吸引了国际上研究量子计算的最主要的力量.我们调研了在这些系统中,在qubit表征,操控方面最具代表性的进展,以及在实现大规模量子计算道路上的困难,和可能的解决办法.     

微纳尺度稀土掺杂晶体的量子相干性能及其应用研究进展

稀土离子掺杂晶体具有稳定的固态物性和出色的能级跃迁相干特性,在量子信息应用研究,尤其是发展量子存储设备方面独具潜力.除了宏观的块状稀土离子单晶,微纳尺度稀土离子晶体在高度集成的杂化量子系统和微型化量子设备方面也具有广泛的应用前景,且其制备难度较低,在体积、形状和组分调控上更具灵活性.因此,开发高性能的微纳尺度稀土离子晶体系统,并对其量子态进行精密探测与操控,已成为量子信息领域的重要研究方向之一.本文结合稀土离子晶体的高分辨和相干光谱学表征技术,综述了近年来微纳尺度稀土离子晶体在材料制备加工、量子相干性能测量、物理机理探索以及量子器件开发等方面的研究进展,对其在量子存储、量子频率转换、量子单光子源以及量子逻辑门等方面取得的最新研究进展进行了总结.最后,对微纳尺度稀土晶体材料及其信息器件研究过程中可能的改进方向和策略进行了讨论.     

光学腔与原子强耦合的实验研究进展

光学腔与原子强耦合系统是量子物理研究的基本系统,不但具有重要的物理意义,而且为量子信息、量子计算和量子精密测量中关键技术的产生和关键器件的研发提供了理想系统。强耦合腔与原子相互作用实验从20世纪90年代开始发展,经过多年的研究,在单原子与光学腔强耦合和原子系综与光学腔的耦合研究方面取得了重大进展。随着多原子阵列量子操控技术的进步,可控的多原子阵列与光学微腔强耦合系统近年来成为腔量子电动力学的重要研究方向。然而,目前实现确定性可控的多原子阵列与腔的强耦合仍面临巨大的技术挑战,可控原子数还停留在两个。简要回顾了近年来光频区强耦合腔量子电动力学系统在上述方面的主要实验进展和相应的实验方案,并展望了未来的发展。     

内腔多原子直接俘获的强耦合腔量子力学系统的构建

腔内中性原子的长时间控制与俘获一直是腔量子电动力学(QED)中的一个难题,极大地制约了人们相干操控单原子及其与光相互作用的研究.基于传统Fabry-Perot光学腔,设计了一套易于内腔原子操控的强耦合腔QED系统,其典型参数为:腔长3.5 mm精细度约为57000,(g0,κ,γ)=2π×(1.48,0.375,2.61)MHz,临界光子数和原子数分别为1.54和0.89.该系统的特点是:能够在腔内直接实现冷原子磁光阱,并建立腔内光学晶格,实现腔内可控数目的中性原子的长时间俘获.通过合理选择构建光学偶极阱和原子成像系统,可实现对腔内单个原子或原子阵列的操控、探测、成像等.该系统可以克服传统腔QED系统中转移原子的困难,大幅增加腔内原子的寿命,为构建以腔QED系统为基础的量子信息演示平台提供了一种可能.     

Y模型四能级原子辅助光力学系统的多稳现象

本文对Y模型四能级原子辅助光力学系统的稳态特性进行了研究.结果发现,构成复合光力学系统的振动腔镜和被束缚在腔内的原子系综将随着弹簧劲度系数的减小,由单稳态过渡到多稳态.在劲度系数很大时,振动腔镜对整个光力学系统几乎无作用,光力学系统和处在腔中的原子系综都将出现一个稳态解.而当劲度系数足够小时,振动腔镜的稳态位移出现了多稳现象,随之对处于光力学腔中的原子系综的稳态行为也产生了影响,不但使得原子系综的极化率呈现出多个稳态解,同时使得腔中的原子系综对探测光的吸收和色散也发生了相应的变化.同时发现,通过调节劲度系数的取值可以控制整个系统稳态解的个数.这些研究结果在精密测量或量子信息处理等方面具有潜在应用价值.     

基于双回音壁模式腔光力学系统的光学传播特性和超高分辨率光学质量传感

研究基于双回音壁模式腔光力学系统中的相干光学传播特性,通过控制该系统中两腔之间的耦合,证明了基于光力诱导透明的慢光效应.该系统中的腔-腔耦合起着关键作用,提供了一个量子通道并影响透明窗口的宽度.基于该系统理论上提出一种光学质量传感方案.通过检测探测吸收谱中由于额外质量引起的机械共振频移可直接测出沉积在回音壁腔表面上的额外纳米颗粒的质量.与单腔光力学质量传感相比,多模式光力学系统中腔-腔耦合显著提高了质量传感的分辨率.双回音壁模式光力学系统将在光学存储和超高分辨率质量传感器件上有着潜在应用.     

纯消相干对量子点-微腔激射性质的影响

应用量子主方程理论研究量子点-微腔耦合系统的激射性质.分别探索了不同类型的微腔耦合系统("好的系统"、"中等系统")在外加泵浦场的作用下表现出的激射现象.分析比较了失谐大小及环境纯消相干对这两种微腔耦合系统的内部特性(光场分布、腔内光子数等)产生的影响.数值仿真表明:对于"好的系统",在失谐量不大的情况下,引入适当的纯消相干有利于提高耦合系统的激射性能;对于"中等系统",由于失谐条件下光子在腔内集聚困难,因而很难达到激射,但是通过引入适量的纯消相干可以对腔内光场分布和光子数产生剧烈调制作用.该结果对于研究单量子点激光器,以及探索光与物质相互作用等方面具有指导作用.     

多量子比特核磁共振体系的实验操控技术

随着量子信息与量子计算科学的发展,量子信息处理器被广泛地用于量子计算、量子模拟、量子度量等方面的研究.为了能在实验上实现这些日益复杂的方案,将量子计算机的潜能转化成现实,需要不断提高可操控的量子体系比特位数,实现更复杂的量子操控.核磁共振自旋体系作为一个优秀的量子实验测试平台,提供了丰富而又精密的量子操控手段.近几年来在此平台上进行了不少的多量子比特实验,发展并积累了一系列的多量子比特实验技术.本文首先阐述了核磁共振体系多量子比特实验中的实验困难,然后结合7量子比特标记赝纯态制备以及其他有关实验,对多比特实验过程中应用到的实验技术进行介绍.最后对核磁共振体系多量子比特实验技术方向的进一步研究进行了总结和展望.     

量子计算的进展和展望

该文主要介绍了量子计算机研究的历史和现状。强调发展大规模的量子计算和实现强关联多体系统的量子模拟,是当前量子计算研究的主流。文章主体部分主要介绍了量子计算机硬件研究方面的进展,主要聚焦于几个具有qubit可集成性的量子系统:量子点系统、超导约瑟夫森结系统、离子阱系统、腔量子电动力学系统,作为实现量子计算机的最主要的候选系统,上述方向的研究吸引了国际上研究量子计算的最主要的力量。我们调研了在这些系统中,在qubit表征、操控方面最具代表性的进展,以及在实现大规模量子计算道路上的困难,和可能的解决办法。     

Review of cavity optomechanical cooling

Quantum manipulation of macroscopic mechanical systems is of great interest in both fundamental physics and ap- plications ranging from high-precision metrology to quantum information processing. For these purposes, a crucial step is to cool the mechanical system to its quantum ground state. In this review, we focus on the cavity optomechanical cooling, which exploits the cavity enhanced interaction between optical field and mechanical motion to reduce the thermal noise. Recent remarkable theoretical and experimental efforts in this field have taken a major step forward in preparing the mo- tional quantum ground state of mesoscopic mechanical systems. This review first describes the quantum theory of cavity optomechanical cooling, including quantum noise approach and covariance approach; then, the up-to-date experimental progresses are introduced. Finally, new cooling approaches are discussed along the directions of cooling in the strong coupling regime and cooling beyond the resolved sideband limit.     

A short walk through quantum optomechanics

This paper gives a brief review of the basic physics of quantum optomechanics and provides an overview of some of its recent developments and current areas of focus. It first outlines the basic theory of cavity optomechanical cooling and gives a brief status report of the experimental state‐of‐the‐art. It then turns to the deep quantum regime of operation of optomechanical oscillators and covers selected aspects of quantum state preparation, control and characterization, including mechanical squeezing and pulsed optomechanics. This is followed by a discussion of the “bottom‐up” approach that exploits ultracold atomic samples instead of nanoscale systems. It concludes with an outlook that concentrates largely on the functionalization of quantum optomechanical systems and their promise in metrology applications.     

Reservoir-engineered entanglement in an unresolved-sideband optomechanical system

We study theoretically the generation of strong entanglement of two mechanical oscillators in an unresolved-sideband optomechanical cavity, using a reservoir engineering approach. In our proposal, the effect of unwanted counter-rotating terms is suppressed via destructive quantum interference by the optical field of two auxiliary cavities. For arbitrary values of the optomechanical interaction, the entanglement is obtained numerically. In the weak-coupling regime, we derive an analytical expression for the entanglement of the two mechanical oscillators based on an effective master equation, and obtain the optimal parameters to achieve strong entanglement. Our analytical results are in accord with numerical simulations.     

Quantum coherence transfer between an optical cavity and mechanical resonators

This study highlights the theoretical investigation of quantum coherence in mechanical oscillators and its transfer between the cavity and mechanical modes of an optomechanical system comprising an optical cavity and two mechanical oscillators that,in this study, were simultaneously coupled to the optical cavity at different optomechanical coupling strengths. The quantum coherence transfer between the optical and mechanical modes is found to depend strongly on the relative magnitude of the two optomechanical couplings. The laser power, decay rates of the cavity and mechanical oscillators, environmental temperature, and frequency of the mechanical oscillator are observed to significantly influence the investigated quantum coherences. Moreover,quantum coherence generation in the optomechanical system is restricted by the system's stability condition, which helps sustain high and stable quantum coherence in the optomechanical system.     

Dynamics and entanglement of a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system in the extremely-large-amplitude regime

The study of optomechanical systems has attracted much attention, most of which are concentrated in the physics in the smallamplitude regime. While in this article, we focus on optomechanics in the extremely-large-amplitude regime and consider both classical and quantum dynamics. Firstly, we study classical dynamics in a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system in which a partially reflecting and flexible membrane is suspended inside an optical cavity. We show that the membrane can present self-sustained oscillations with limit cycles in the shape of sawtooth-edged ellipses and exhibit dynamical multistability. Then, we study the dynamics of the quantum fluctuations around the classical orbits. By using the logarithmic negativity, we calculate the evolution of the quantum entanglement between the optical cavity mode and the membrane during the mechanical oscillation. We show that there is some synchronism between the classical dynamical process and the evolution of the quantum entanglement.     

Proposal for entangling remote micromechanical oscillators via optical measurements

We propose an experiment to create and verify entanglement between remote mechanical objects by use of an optomechanical interferometer. Two optical cavities, each coupled to a separate mechanical oscillator, are coherently driven such that the oscillators are laser cooled to the quantum regime. The entanglement is induced by optical measurement and comes about by combining the output from the two cavities to erase which-path information. It can be verified through measurements of degrees of second-order coherence of the optical output field. The experiment is feasible in the regime of weak optomechanical coupling. Realistic parameters for the membrane-in-the-middle geometry suggest entangled state lifetimes on the order of milliseconds.     

Enhancing optomechanical force sensing via precooling and quantum noise cancellation

We theoretically investigate optomechanical force sensing via precooling and quantum noise cancellation in two coupled cavity optomechanical systems.We show that force sensing based on the reduction of noise can be used to dramatically enhance the force sensing and that the precooling process can eifectively improve the quantum noise cancellation.Specifically,we examine the effect of optomechanical cooling and noise reduction on the spectral density of the noise of the force measurement;these processes can significantly enhance the performance of optomechanical force sensing,and setting up the system in the resolved sideband regime can lead to an optimization of the cooling processes in a hybrid system.Such a scheme serves as a promising platform for quantum back-action-evading measurements of the motion and a framework for an optomechanical force sensor.     

双光腔耦合下机械振子的基态冷却

机械振子的基态冷却是腔量子光力学中的基本问题之一.所谓的基态冷却就是让机械振子的稳态声子数小于1.本文通过光压涨落谱和稳态声子数研究双光腔光力系统(标准单光腔光力系统中引入第二个光腔,并与第一个光腔直接耦合)的基态冷却.首先得到系统的有效哈密顿量,然后给出朗之万方程和速率方程,最后分别给出空腔和原子腔的光压涨落谱、冷却率和稳态声子数.通过光压涨落谱、冷却率和稳态声子数表达式,重点讨论空腔时机械振子的基态冷却,发现当满足最佳参数条件(机械振子的冷却跃迁速率对应光压涨落谱的最大值,而加热跃迁速率对应光压涨落谱的最小值)时,机械振子可以被冷却到稳态声子数足够少.此外分析:当辅助腔内注入原子系综时,若参数选择恰当可能更利于基态冷却.     

All-optical optomechanics: an optical spring mirror

The dominant hurdle to the operation of optomechanical systems in the quantum regime is the coupling of the vibrating element to a thermal reservoir via mechanical supports. Here we propose a scheme that uses an optical spring to replace the mechanical support. We show that the resolved-sideband regime of cooling can be reached in a configuration using a high-reflectivity disk mirror held by an optical tweezer as one of the end mirrors of a Fabry-Perot cavity. We find a final phonon occupation number of the trapped mirror n=0.56 for reasonable parameters, the limit being set by our approximations, and not any fundamental physics. This demonstrates the promise of dielectric disks attached to optical springs for the observation of quantum effects in macroscopic objects.     

Quantum theory of cavity-assisted sideband cooling of mechanical motion

We present a quantum-mechanical theory of the cooling of a cantilever coupled via radiation pressure to an illuminated optical cavity. Applying the quantum noise approach to the fluctuations of the radiation pressure force, we derive the optomechanical cooling rate and the minimum achievable phonon number. We find that reaching the quantum limit of arbitrarily small phonon numbers requires going into the good-cavity (resolved phonon sideband) regime where the cavity linewidth is much smaller than the mechanical frequency and the corresponding cavity detuning. This is in contrast to the common assumption that the mechanical frequency and the cavity detuning should be comparable to the cavity damping.