Mechanical Squeezed-Fock Qubit: Towards Quantum Weak-Force Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13161v2
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:57:36 GMT
• Title: Mechanical Squeezed-Fock Qubit: Towards Quantum Weak-Force Sensing
• Authors: Yi-Fan Qiao, Jun-Hong An, Peng-Bo Li,
• Abstract summary: Mechanical qubits offer unique advantages over other qubit platforms, but their potential is constrained by the inherently weak nonlinearities and small anharmonicity of nanomechanical resonators.<n>We propose to overcome this shortcoming by using squeezed Fock states of phonons in a parametrically driven nonlinear mechanical oscillator.<n>We show that our mechanical qubit can serve as a quantum sensor for weak forces, with its resulting sensitivity increased by at least one order of magnitude over that of traditional mechanical qubits.
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• Abstract: Mechanical qubits offer unique advantages over other qubit platforms, primarily in terms of coherence time and possibilities for enhanced sensing applications, but their potential is constrained by the inherently weak nonlinearities and small anharmonicity of nanomechanical resonators. We propose to overcome this shortcoming by using squeezed Fock states of phonons in a parametrically driven nonlinear mechanical oscillator. We find that, under two-phonon driving, squeezed Fock states become eigenstates of a Kerr-nonlinear mechanical oscillator, featuring an energy spectrum with exponentially enhanced and tunable anharmonicity, such that the transitions to higher energy states are exponentially suppressed. This enables us to encode the mechanical qubit within the ground and first excited squeezed Fock states of the driven mechanical oscillator. This kind of mechanical qubit is termed mechanical squeezed-Fock qubit. We also show that our mechanical qubit can serve as a quantum sensor for weak forces, with its resulting sensitivity increased by at least one order of magnitude over that of traditional mechanical qubits. The proposed mechanical squeezed-Fock qubit provides a powerful quantum phonon platform for quantum sensing and information processing.

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