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Published August 11, 2010 | Version Published
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Preparing a Mechanical Oscillator in Non-Gaussian Quantum States

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  • 1. ROR icon Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • 2. ROR icon University of Western Australia
  • 3. ROR icon Leibniz University Hannover
  • 4. ROR icon California Institute of Technology

Abstract

We propose a protocol for coherently transferring non-Gaussian quantum states from an optical field to a mechanical oscillator. We demonstrate its experimental feasibility in future gravitational-wave detectors and tabletop optomechanical devices. This work not only outlines a feasible way to investigate nonclassicality in macroscopic optomechanical systems, but also presents a new and elegant approach for solving non-Markovian open quantum dynamics in general linear systems.

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© 2010 The American Physical Society. Received 5 February 2010; revised manuscript received 19 April 2010; published 11 August 2010. We thank our colleagues at Caltech Theoretical Astrophysics group and LIGO MQM group for fruitful discussions. We thank R. Schnabel and C. Zhao for useful comments. F. K.'s research has been supported by NSF and Caltech Grant No. PHY-0651036. S. D., H. M.-E., H.Y., and Y. C. are supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Sofja Kovalevskaja Programme, NSF Grants No. PHY-0653653 and No. PHY-0601459, as well as the David and Barbara Groce startup fund at Caltech. H. M. is supported by the Australian Research Council and Department of Education.

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NSF
PHY-0653653
NSF
PHY-0601459
NSF
PHY-0651036
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Australian Research Council
Department of Education
David and Barbara Groce startup fund

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