Physical Review Letters ( IF 8.1 ) Pub Date : 2024-11-13 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.203602 Changlong Zhu, Claudiu Genes, Birgit Stiller
Entanglement in hybrid quantum systems comprised of fundamentally different degrees of freedom, such as light and mechanics, is of interest for a wide range of applications in quantum technologies. Here, we propose to engineer bipartite entanglement between traveling acoustic phonons in a Brillouin active solid state system and the accompanying light wave. The effect is achieved by applying optical pump pulses to state-of-the-art waveguides, exciting a Brillouin Stokes process. This pulsed approach, in a system operating in a regime orthogonal to standard optomechanical setups, allows for the generation of entangled photon-phonon pairs, resilient to thermal fluctuations. We propose an experimental platform where readout of the optoacoustics entanglement is done by the simultaneous detection of Stokes and anti-Stokes photons in a two-pump configuration. The proposed mechanism presents an important feature in that it does not require initial preparation of the quantum ground state of the phonon mode.
中文翻译:
连续布里渊活性固态系统中的光声纠缠
由根本不同的自由度组成的混合量子系统(例如光和力学)中的纠缠在量子技术中的广泛应用中引起了人们的兴趣。在这里,我们建议设计布里渊活性固态系统中的行进声声子与伴随的光波之间的二分纠缠。该效果是通过将光泵浦脉冲应用于最先进的波导来实现的,从而激发布里渊斯托克斯过程。这种脉冲方法在以与标准光机械设置正交的方式运行的系统中,允许生成纠缠的光子-声子对,对热波动有弹性。我们提出了一个实验平台,其中光声纠缠的读出是通过在双泵配置中同时检测斯托克斯和反斯托克斯光子来完成的。所提出的机制具有一个重要特征,即它不需要声子模式的量子基态的初始准备。