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Bench-top Cooling of a Microwave Mode using an Optically Pumped Spin Refrigerator

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00268v2
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2021 06:35:40 GMT
Title: Bench-top Cooling of a Microwave Mode using an Optically Pumped Spin Refrigerator
Authors: Hao Wu, Shamil Mirkhanov, Wern Ng, and Mark Oxborrow
Abstract summary: We experimentally remove thermal photons from a microwave mode at 1.45 GHz. The noise temperature of the microwave mode dropped to $50+18_-32$ K. We identify the system as a narrow-band yet extremely convenient platform for realizing low-noise detectors, quantum memory and quantum-enhanced machines.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate the temporary removal of thermal photons from a microwave mode at 1.45 GHz through its interaction with the spin-polarized triplet states of photo-excited pentacene molecules doped within a p-terphenyl crystal at room temperature. The crystal functions electromagnetically as a narrow-band cryogenic load, removing photons from the otherwise room-temperature mode via stimulated absorption. The noise temperature of the microwave mode dropped to $50^{+18}_{-32}$ K (as directly inferred by noise-power measurements) while the metal walls of the cavity enclosing the mode remained at room temperature. Simulations based on the same system's behavior as a maser (which could be characterized more accurately) indicate the possibility of the mode's temperature sinking to $\sim$10 K (corresponding to $\sim$140 microwave photons). These observations, when combined with engineering improvements to deepen the cooling, identify the system as a narrow-band yet extremely convenient platform -- free of cryogenics, vacuum chambers and strong magnets -- for realizing low-noise detectors, quantum memory and quantum-enhanced machines (such as heat engines) based on strong spin-photon coupling and entanglement at microwave frequencies.

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