Squeezing-enhanced dual-channel interference for ground-state cooling of a levitated micromagnet with low quality factor

TL;DR

This paper introduces a dual-channel cooling scheme using squeezing-enhanced quantum interference in a hybrid levitated system, significantly reducing the quality factor needed for ground-state cooling of a macroscopic oscillator.

Contribution

It proposes a novel hybrid cooling method that suppresses heating and enhances cooling, enabling ground-state cooling with much lower quality factors than previously possible.

Findings

Reduces critical Qc for ground-state cooling by three orders of magnitude.

Enhances net cooling rate by nearly 180 times.

Achieves robust cooling deep in the unresolved-sideband regime.

Abstract

Cooling the center-of-mass (CM) motion of a macroscopic oscillator to its quantum ground state is a fundamental prerequisite for testing quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales. However, achieving this goal is currently hindered by the stringent requirement for an ultrahigh mechanical quality factor ($Q_c$). Here, we propose a dual-channel cooling scheme based on squeezing-enhanced quantum interference within a hybrid levitated cavity-magnomechanical system to overcome this limitation. By synergizing squeezing effects with quantum interference between the magnon-CM and cavity-CM channels, our scheme simultaneously suppresses Stokes (heating) scattering while enhancing anti-Stokes (cooling) scattering.~We demonstrate that this cooling mechanism reduces the critical $Q_c$ required for ground-state cooling by three orders of magnitude, making it achievable in the experimentally accessible regime of $Q_c \sim 10^4$. Furthermore, the net cooling rate is enhanced by nearly 180-fold compared to that of conventional single-channel cooling. This improvement is accompanied by a two orders of magnitude reduction in both the steady-state CM occupancy and the cooling time. Importantly, this enhanced performance remains robust even deep within the unresolved-sideband regime. Our results provide a feasible path toward preparing macroscopic quantum states by actively controlling the cooling dynamics, thereby relaxing the constraints on intrinsic material properties.