Dissipative optomechanical preparation of non-Gaussian mechanical entanglement

TL;DR

This paper introduces a deterministic, dissipation-assisted method to generate robust non-Gaussian entanglement between mechanical modes in optomechanical systems operating in the nonlinear regime, advancing quantum technology applications.

Contribution

It presents a novel on-demand scheme leveraging cavity dissipation to produce steady-state non-Gaussian bipartite entanglement in the nonlinear optomechanical regime, which is less explored in prior work.

Findings

High degree of steady-state entanglement achievable

Scheme is robust against decoherence and temperature

Conditions for non-Gaussianity are identified

Abstract

Entanglement had played a crucial role in developing frontier technologies as a critical resource, for instance, in quantum teleportation and quantum sensing schemes. Notably, thanks to the ability to cool down the vibrational modes of mechanical oscillators to its quantum regime, entanglement between mechanical modes and the production of nonclassical mechanical states have emerged as central resources for quantum technological applications. Thus, proposing deterministic schemes to achieve those tasks is of paramount importance. While the dominant scheme for bipartite mechanical entanglement involves Gaussian optomechanical interactions (linearized regime) to generate two-mode squeezed vacuum states, entangling two-modes exploiting the bare non-Gaussian optomechanical interaction (nonlinear strong single-photon regime) remains less covered. This work proposes an on-demand scheme to engineer phononic non-Gaussian bipartite entanglement in the nonlinear regime by exploiting cavity dissipation. Interestingly, our protocol (operating in the resolved sideband and photon blockade regime) renders the possibility of achieving a high degree of steady-state entanglement. We further show that our deterministic scheme is robust in the presence of decoherence and temperature within state-of-the-art optomechanics, along with the required conditions to obtain non-Gaussianity of the achieved bipartite mechanical steady-state.