Domino cooling of a coupled mechanical-resonator chain via cold-damping feedback

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12665v2
• Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:47:55 GMT
• Title: Domino cooling of a coupled mechanical-resonator chain via cold-damping feedback
• Authors: Deng-Gao Lai, Jian Huang, Bang-Pin Hou, Franco Nori, and Jie-Qiao Liao
• Abstract summary: We propose a domino-cooling method to realize simultaneous ground-state cooling of a coupled mechanical-resonator chain. We obtain analytical results for the effective susceptibilities, noise spectra, final mean phonon numbers, and cooling rates of these mechanical resonators. This study opens a route to quantum manipulation of multiple mechanical resonators in the bad-cavity regime.
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• Abstract: We propose a domino-cooling method to realize simultaneous ground-state cooling of a coupled mechanical-resonator chain through an optomechanical cavity working in the unresolved-sideband regime. This domino-effect cooling is realized by combining the cold-damping feedback on the first mechanical resonator with nearest-neighbor couplings between other neighboring mechanical resonators. We obtain analytical results for the effective susceptibilities, noise spectra, final mean phonon numbers, and cooling rates of these mechanical resonators, and find the optimal-cooling condition for these resonators. Particularly, we analyze a two-mechanical-resonator case and find that by appropriately engineering either the laser power or the feedback, a flexible switch between symmetric and asymmetric ground-state cooling can be achieved. This could be used for preparing symmetric quantum states in mechanical systems. We also simulate the cooling performance of a coupled $N$-mechanical-resonator chain and confirm that these resonators can be simultaneously cooled to their quantum ground states in the unresolved-sideband regime. Under proper parameter conditions, the cooling of the mechanical-resonator chain shows a temperature gradient along the chain. This study opens a route to quantum manipulation of multiple mechanical resonators in the bad-cavity regime.

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