Single-photon-induced phonon blockade in a hybrid spin-optomechanical system

Li-Li Zheng, Tai-Shuang Yin, Qian Bin, Xin-You Lü, and Ying Wu
Phys. Rev. A 99, 013804 – Published 3 January 2019

Abstract

We explore the photon-controlled phonon statistics in a hybrid spin-optomechanical system. Here the proposed phonon blockade is based on the nonlinearity of system induced by the strong spin-mechanical coupling. Our approach involves introducing an ancillary quadratic optomechanical coupling (i.e., the cavity field quadratically coupled to mechanical motion) and simultaneously considering the cavity field with a single photon. By injecting the auxiliary photons, one can not only enhance the spin-resonator interaction, but also realize fully switchable phonon blockade. This work offers an approach to manipulate phonon statistics with photons, which should inspire the engineering of new single-phonon quantum devices and have potential applications in the future hybrid photon-phonon quantum networks.

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  • Received 31 October 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013804

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & Optical

Authors & Affiliations

Li-Li Zheng, Tai-Shuang Yin*, Qian Bin, Xin-You Lü, and Ying Wu

  • School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

  • *taishuangyin@163.com
  • xinyoulu@hust.edu.cn
  • yingwu2@126.com

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Vol. 99, Iss. 1 — January 2019

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