纳米机械谐振器耦合量子比特非厄米哈密顿量诱导的声子阻塞

研究了纳米机械谐振器耦合量子比特系统中的声子阻塞现象.发现在弱驱动的条件下,非厄米哈密顿量的所有本征值都等于零时,出现了强声子反聚束现象.于是提出了零本征值方法来诱导声子阻塞.本文详细分析了此方法对声子阻塞的影响,给出了最佳条件并解释了背后的物理机理.不同于传统的声子阻塞和非传统的声子阻塞,不管是强非线性还是弱非线性,都可以实现声子的反聚束效应.     

双拉盖尔-高斯腔光力系统中的腔内压缩冷却研究

机械振子的冷却是腔光力学研究的重要方向之一。计算光力噪声谱和稳态的最终声子数,对基于耦合光学参量放大器（OPA）的双拉盖尔-高斯腔光力系统中的腔内压缩冷却问题进行研究。在弱耦合条件下,利用微扰近似理论方法得出系统的光力噪声谱,基于费米黄金法则的理论计算出稳态下的最终声子数的解析表达式。利用入射泵浦光驱动腔场内耦合的OPA,使腔场内形成强烈的非线性压缩效应,量子反作用加热过程得到有效抑制,系统净冷却率得到显著提高。此外,讨论了其他系统参数对机械振子冷却的影响。最后研究了系统的稳态声子数,声子数可以在较大参数范围内小于1。该方案能有效地降低机械振子的冷却极限。     

原子辅助光力系统中快慢光的量子调控

随着纳米科技以及半导体技术的迅猛发展,光力诱导透明、快慢光和光存储以及其他在光力系统中发现的量子光学和非线性光学效应成为人们目前研究的热点.本文将薄膜腔光力系统同被束缚在腔中的二能级冷原子系综相耦合,通过直接在薄膜振子上引入弱辅助驱动场来研究该原子辅助光力系统中原子和相位对量子相干性质及其快慢光的调控.经过分析发现,通过改变辅助驱动场的强度可直接实现对光力诱导透明窗口深度的调控,通过改变辅助场与探测场之间的相位差,可实现输出的探测场在"吸收"、"透明"和"增益"之间相互转换,进而对弱探测场进行动态调控实现光开关.与此同时,还发现系统的群延迟时间随相位差的改变呈周期性变化.通过调节相位差及原子数,不但可以改变群延迟时间,还可实现快慢光之间的相互转换.     

参量放大器腔中光力诱导透明与本征模劈裂性质

研究了在含有光学参量放大器的光力学腔中关于弱探测光的光力诱导透明与本征模劈裂的性质.研究发现,光学参量放大器的驱动场相位和非线性增益值的大小对光力诱导透明窗口宽度和本征模劈裂性质有非常重要的影响,特别是当控制光频率工作在光力学红边带下,通过适当调制相位和非线性增益可以实现比空腔时(没有光学参量放大器时)还狭窄的光力诱导透明窗口,此时伴随着陡峭的色散曲线.这些研究结果有利于在光力耦合系统中实现快慢光、光存储等量子信息处理过程.     

三机械薄膜腔光力系统相互作用的研究

本文主要研究了利用传输矩阵理论和共振透射条件详细地推导光腔中均匀放置三个机械薄膜构成的腔光力系统中系统本征模式随机械运动的色散关系.计算结果发现系统的光学本征模式由一组四个的本征能级构成,且不同的能级随不同的机械运动模式的变化曲线各不相同,进而导致不同光学模式与不同机械运动模式之间的耦合也不相同.此外,利用微扰理论求解了当机械运动振幅远小于腔模波长、机械振子处于平衡位置附近时,各种光学模式与不同机械振动模式间相互作用耦合强度的解析表达式.研究结果能够为理论和实验上研究多模腔光力系统提供一定的参考.     

双腔光力系统中机械振子的基态冷却

宏观机械系统的量子操控无论是在基础物理学还是在高精度测量和量子信息处理等的应用上都非常重要。其中关键的一步是将机械系统冷却到它的量子基态。本文提出了一个光力系统,该系统包含了两个光学模式和一个与这两个光学模式都发生相互作用的机械模式。此外,这两个腔模还分别由两束光驱动。通过对哈密顿量进行变换以及求解系统的海森堡-郎之万方程,得到了机械振子最终平均声子数的表达式。结合作图发现,这个系统的特殊结构可以实现在不可分辨边带情况下机械振子的基态冷却,所以系统对腔的品质因子要求降低,实验上更容易实现。另外还发现,通过调节驱动光的功率可使得冷却效果达到最好。     

蓝失谐驱动下双腔光力系统中的光学非互易性

光学非互易性对建立量子网络和现代通讯技术都是不可或缺的.本文研究了双腔光力学系统在蓝失谐驱动下如何实现完美的光学非互易性.研究发现此系统中的光学非互易性来源于系统中的光力相互作用和腔模线性耦合相互作用之间的量子干涉效应.在应用光力学输入输出关系得出输出光场表达式后,给出了在此系统中实现完美光学非互易性的条件以及影响非互易谱线宽度的因素.另外还发现当系统参数(耗散速率)一定时,可以存在两套耦合强度来实现完美的光学非互易性.最后利用劳斯-霍尔维茨(Routh-Hurwitz)稳定性判据给出了系统的稳定条件.     

光腔耦合阵列中四模方形Cluster态的制备

提出一种四模方形cluster态的制备方案,方案选用四个分别包含一个原子系综的独立单模光腔,光腔之间用短光纤实现耦合.讨论证明在合适外加激光脉冲的驱动下,可确定性的制备得到稳定的四模方形cluster态.通过调节驱动激光的频率和相位,该方案可以拓展到多模和其他形cluster态的制备.     

光腔耦合阵列中四模方形Cluster态的制备

提出一种四模方形cluster态的制备方案,方案选用四个分别包含一个原子系综的独立单模光腔,光腔之间用短光纤实现耦合.讨论证明在合适外加激光脉冲的驱动下,可确定性的制备得到稳定的四模方形cluster态.通过调节驱动激光的频率和相位,该方案可以拓展到多模和其他形cluster态的制备.     

一种广义三模腔光机械系统的相干完美吸收与透射

提出了一种广义的三模式腔光机械系统,系统的中间是一个反射率为100%的可移动的全反射机械振子,两侧均由一个部分透射的固定光学腔镜构成.其中两个光学腔由一束较强的控制场和一束较弱的信号场驱动与同一个机械振子实现耦合.较弱的信号场将会被该系统完全吸收而不产生任何能量输出,并且当相干完美吸收产生时,输入信号场的能量将由两个腔场和机械模共同分担;较弱的输入信号场由一个腔完美透视到另一个腔而不产生任何的能量损耗.分析与数值结果显示,在不同参数机制下,在该三模光机械系统中可以实现相干完美吸收、相干完美透射和相干完美合成的量子现象.此外,改变腔与腔之间的耦合度,可以实现输出探测场在相干完美吸收和相干完美透射之间转换;通过简单的相位调制,可以实现探测场左腔-右腔的输出和输入方向的互换.这些动态控制在量子信息网络可用来构造光子开关、光子路由、光子交换机等一些特殊功能的光子学器件.     

Unconventional photon blockade induced by the self-Kerr and cross-Kerr nonlinearities

We study the use of the self-Kerr and cross-Kerr nonlinearities to realize strong photon blockade in a weakly driven, four-mode optomechanical system. According to the Born−Oppenheimer approximation, we obtain the cavity self-Kerr coupling and the inter-cavity cross-Kerr coupling, adiabatically separated from the mechanical oscillator. Through minimizing the second-order correlation function, we find out the optimal parameter conditions for the unconventional photon blockade. Under the optimal conditions, the strong photon blockade can appear in the strong or weak nonlinearities.     

Unconventional Phonon Blockade in a Tavis–Cummings Coupled Optomechanical System

A phonon blockade is achieved in a hybrid optomechanical system including an ensemble of two-level quantum emitters. The introduction of the ensemble of quantum emitters sets up a mechanism of quantum destructive interference within the system, by which the phonon statistical characteristic exhibits strong antibunching under the condition of weak driving and weak coupling. By analyzing the analytic solution of the second-order correlation function, the optimal parametric condition for ideal phonon blockade effect is obtained. The numerical simulation of the second-order correlation function perfectly accord with the analytical solution. The validity of the effective Hamiltonian is proved by the numerical simulations with quantum master equation. The proposed scheme provides a possible way to realize the single-phonon source experimentally.     

Quantum statistics of phonon radiations in optomechanical systems

We study the correlation statistics of phonon radiations in a weakly driven optomechanical system. Three dominated scattering processes are identified by the scattering theory analytically and the master equation numerically, whose interplay determines the phonon statistical properties. Our results show that for the large detuning, the driving field off-resonant with the system induces a small emission rate of two anti-bunched phonons. For the resonant driving field, there is a relatively large emission rate of two bunched phonons.     

Dissipation-induced topological phase transition and periodic-driving-induced photonic topological state transfer in a small optomechanical lattice

We propose a scheme to investigate the topological phase transition and the topological state transfer based on the small optomechanical lattice under the realistic parameters regime.We find that the optomechanical lattice can be equivalent to a topologically nontrivial Su-Schrieffer Heeger(SSH)model via designing the effective optomechanical coupling.Especially,the optomechanical lattice experiences the phase transition between topologically nontrivial SSH phase and topologically trivial SSH phase by controlling the decay of the cavity field and the opto mechanical coupling.We stress that the to pological phase transition is mainly induced by the decay of the cavity field,which is counter-intuitive since the dissipation is usually detrimental to the system.Also,we investigate the photonic state transfer between the two cavity fields via the topologically protected edge channel based on the small optomechanical lattice.We find that the quantum st ate transfer assisted by the topological zero energy mode can be achieved via implying the external lasers with the periodical driving amplitudes into the cavity fields.Our scheme provides the fundamental and the insightful explanations towards the mapping of the photonic topological insulator based on the micro-nano optomechanical quantum optical platform.     

Tunable optomechanically induced transparency and fast–slow light in a loop-coupled optomechanical system

We theoretically explore the tunability of optomechanically induced transparency(OMIT) phenomenon and fast–slow light effect in a loop-coupled hybrid optomechanical system in which two optical modes are coupled to a common mechanical mode. In the probe output spectrum, we find that the interference phenomena OMIT caused by the optomechanical interactions and the normal mode splitting(NMS) induced by the strong tunnel coupling between the cavities can be observed. We further observe that the tunnel interaction will affect the distance and the heights of the sideband absorption peaks. The results also show that the switch from absorption to amplification can be realized by tuning the driving strength because of the existence of stability condition. Except from modulating the tunnel interaction, the conversion between slow light and fast light also can be achieved by adjusting the optomechanical interaction in the output field. This study may provide a potential application in the fields of high precision measurement and quantum information processing.     

Triple optomechanical induced transparency in a two-cavity system

We theoretically investigate the optomechanical induced transparency(OMIT) phenomenon in a two-cavity system which is composed of two optomechanical cavities. Both of the cavities consist of a fixed mirror and a high-Q mechanical resonator, and they couple to each other via a common waveguide. We show that in the presence of a strong pump field applied to one cavity and a weak probe field applied to the other, a triple-OMIT can be observed in the output field at the probe frequency. The two mechanical resonators in the two cavities are identical, but they lead to different quantum interference pathways. The transparency windows are induced by the coupling of the two cavities and the optical pressure radiated to the mechanical resonators, which can be controlled via the power of the pump field and the coupling strength of the two cavities.     

Nonreciprocal ground-state cooling of mechanical resonator in a spinning optomechanical system

We theoretically present a scheme for nonreciprocal ground-state cooling in a double-cavity spinning optomechanical system which is consisted of an optomechanical resonator and a spinning optical harmonic resonator with directional driving. The optical Sagnac effect generated by the whispering-gallery cavity (WGC) rotation creates frequency difference between the WGC mode, we found that the mechanical resonator (MR) can be cooled to the ground state when the propagation direction of driving light is opposite to the spin direction of the WGC, but not from the other side, vice versa, so that the nonreciprocal cooling is achieved. By appropriately selecting the system parameters, the heating process can be completely suppressed due to the quantum interference effect. The proposed approach provides a platform for quantum manipulation of macroscopic mechanical devices beyond the resolved sideband limit.     

Nonreciprocal Mechanical Squeezing in a Spinning Optomechanical System

A scheme for nonreciprocal mechanical squeezing (NMS) based on the three‐mode optomechanical interaction is proposed. In this scheme, a mechanical mode couples to a spinning whispering‐gallery‐cavity (WGC) mode and to an optical mode. An external laser is coupled into and thus drives the WGC via a waveguide. Mechanical squeezing results from the joint effect of the mechanical intrinsic nonlinearity and the quadratic optomechanical coupling, which, in the presence of strong thermal noise, is still considerable, while the nonreciprocity originates from the optical Sagnac effect. There are two NMS areas in the parametric space, one works for the laser driving from the left of the waveguide and another, from the right. For a given spinning speed of the WGC, the squeezing values in these two areas are equal if the corresponding detunings of the WGC differ from each other by two‐times of the Sagnac–Fizeau shift. At the red‐detuning resonance, the analytical results for the mechanical squeezing and cooling are obtained. The NMS scheme is robust to the thermal noise of the mechanical environment.     

腔光力学系统中的量子测量

腔光力学系统近年来迅猛发展, 在精密测量、量子传感等方面已展现出重要的应用价值. 特别是与微纳技术和冷原子技术结合后, 这一系统正发展成为研究量子测量与量子操控的理想平台. 本文首先综述腔光力学在量子测量, 尤其是量子测量基础理论研究方面的进展; 然后分析腔光力学系统中的量子测量原理; 最后介绍我们近来在这方面的研究进展, 并通过我们设计的一系列新颖的基于腔光力学系统的量子测量方案来具体展示该系统在量子测量、量子操控等方面的潜在应用.     

Electro-optomechanical cooperative cooling of nanomechanical oscillator beyond resolved sideband regime

We propose a ground-state cooling scheme for a nanomechanical oscillator(NMO)that interacts with an optical cavity via radiation pressure at one side and with a superconducting microwave cavity via a capacitor at the other side.By driving these two cavities on their respective red sidebands with extra laser and microwave fields,the NMO’s dual cooling channel is created through electro-optomechanical cooperation.Differing from the conventional optomechanical system with a single optical cavity wherein ground-state cooling is limited in the resolved sideband,the proposed scheme allows the optical cavity to function in an unresolved sideband regime under the cooperation of a microwave cavity with a high quality factor,or vice versa.In a weak coupling regime we demonstrate that the NMO can be cooled to near its ground-state from a finite temperature with a cooling rate that is significantly faster than that of the single-cavity optomechanical system.The heating process can be completely suppressed by the cooperation of the dual cooling channel by appropriately selecting the system’s parameters.With a decreasing thermal phonon number,the numerical results of final mechanical occupancy gradually approach the analytical cooling limit.