Measurement-based quantum control of mechanical motion

Massimiliano Rossi, David Mason, Junxin Chen, Yeghishe Tsaturyan and Albert Schliesser ()
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Massimiliano Rossi: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
David Mason: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Junxin Chen: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Yeghishe Tsaturyan: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Albert Schliesser: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Nature, 2018, vol. 563, issue 7729, 53-58

Abstract: Abstract Controlling a quantum system by using observations of its dynamics is complicated by the backaction of the measurement process—that is, the unavoidable quantum disturbance caused by coupling the system to a measurement apparatus. An efficient measurement is one that maximizes the amount of information gained per disturbance incurred. Real-time feedback can then be used to cancel the backaction of the measurement and to control the evolution of the quantum state. Such measurement-based quantum control has been demonstrated in the clean settings of cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics, but its application to motional degrees of freedom has remained elusive. Here we demonstrate measurement-based quantum control of the motion of a millimetre-sized membrane resonator. An optomechanical transducer resolves the zero-point motion of the resonator in a fraction of its millisecond-scale coherence time, with an overall measurement efficiency close to unity. An electronic feedback loop converts this position record to a force that cools the resonator mode to its quantum ground state (residual thermal occupation of about 0.29). This occupation is nine decibels below the quantum-backaction limit of sideband cooling and six orders of magnitude below the equilibrium occupation of the thermal environment. We thus realize a long-standing goal in the field, adding position and momentum to the degrees of freedom that are amenable to measurement-based quantum control, with potential applications in quantum information processing and gravitational-wave detectors.

Keywords: Quantum Control; Sideband Cooling; Backaction; Optomechanically Induced Transparency (OMIT); Phononic Crystals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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