Optical squeezing mediated by levitated oscillators at their quantum ground state

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26790v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:24:06 GMT
• Title: Optical squeezing mediated by levitated oscillators at their quantum ground state
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate optical squeezing below the shot-noise level generated through the interaction of an optical cavity field with two center-of-mass modes of a levitated nanoparticles.<n>We observe consistent squeezing in the band 70-95 kHz with a lowest variance of 0.98 (2$%$ below vacuum fluctuations)<n>We establish levitated optomechanics as a platform for multimode quantum interactions.
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• Abstract: We demonstrate optical squeezing below the shot-noise level generated through the interaction of an optical cavity field with two center-of-mass modes of a levitated nanoparticle, simultaneously cooled to occupation numbers well below unity. By analyzing the quadrature fluctuations of the cavity output through heterodyne detection, we resolve the full spectral covariance matrix of the optical field and map regions of sub-shot-noise squeezing as a function of detection phase and frequency. Operating in the resolved sideband and strong coupling regime where mechanical modes hybridize with the optical mode, we observe consistent squeezing in the band 70-95 kHz with a lowest variance of 0.98 (2$\%$ below vacuum fluctuations). We thus demonstrate optical squeezing mediated by multiple mechanical oscillators in their quantum ground state, bridging mechanical quantum control with non-classical light and establishing levitated optomechanics as a platform for multimode quantum interactions.

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