Generation of mechanical cat-like states via optomagnomechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10347v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:03:14 GMT
• Title: Generation of mechanical cat-like states via optomagnomechanics
• Authors: Hao-Tian Li, Hong-Bin Wang, Zi-Xu Lu, Jie Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose an optomagnomechanical approach for preparing a cat-like superposition state of mechanical motion.<n>We first prepare a squeezed mechanical state by driving the magnomechanical system with a two-tone microwave field.<n>We then switch off the microwave drives and send a weak red-detuned optical pulse to the optical cavity to weakly activate the optomechanical anti-Stokes scattering.
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• Abstract: We propose an optomagnomechanical approach for preparing a cat-like superposition state of mechanical motion. Our protocol consists of two steps and is based on the magnomechanical system where the magnetostrictively induced displacement further couples to an optical cavity mode via radiation pressure. We first prepare a squeezed mechanical state by driving the magnomechanical system with a two-tone microwave field. We then switch off the microwave drives and send a weak red-detuned optical pulse to the optical cavity to weakly activate the optomechanical anti-Stokes scattering. We show that $k$ phonons can be subtracted from the prepared squeezed state, conditioned on the detection of $k$ anti-Stokes photons from the cavity output field, which prepares the mechanical motion in a cat-like state. The work provides a new avenue for preparing mechanical superposition states by combining opto- and magnomechanics and may find applications in the study of macroscopic quantum states and the test of collapse theories.

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