Optomechanical cooling with coherent and squeezed light: the thermodynamic cost of opening the heat valve

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03596v2
• Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 12:26:20 GMT
• Title: Optomechanical cooling with coherent and squeezed light: the thermodynamic cost of opening the heat valve
• Authors: Juliette Monsel, Nastaran Dashti, Sushanth Kini Manjeshwar, Jakob Eriksson, Henric Ernbrink, Ebba Olsson, Emelie Torneus, Witlef Wieczorek and Janine Splettstoesser
• Abstract summary: Ground-state cooling of mechanical motion by coupling to a driven optical cavity has been demonstrated in various optomechanical systems. We provide a so far missing thermodynamic performance analysis of optomechanical sideband cooling in terms of a heat valve.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Ground-state cooling of mechanical motion by coupling to a driven optical cavity has been demonstrated in various optomechanical systems. In our work, we provide a so far missing thermodynamic performance analysis of optomechanical sideband cooling in terms of a heat valve. As performance quantifiers, we examine not only the lowest reachable effective temperature (phonon number) but also the evacuated-heat flow as an equivalent to the cooling power of a standard refrigerator, as well as appropriate thermodynamic efficiencies, which all can be experimentally inferred from measurements of the cavity output light field. Importantly, in addition to the standard optomechanical setup fed by coherent light, we investigate two recent alternative setups for achieving ground-state cooling: replacing the coherent laser drive by squeezed light or using a cavity with a frequency-dependent (Fano) mirror. We study the dynamics of these setups within and beyond the weak-coupling limit and give concrete examples based on parameters of existing experimental systems. By applying our thermodynamic framework, we gain detailed insights into these three different optomechanical cooling setups, allowing a comprehensive understanding of the thermodynamic mechanisms at play.

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