A single-atom heat engine

J Roßnagel, ST Dawkins, KN Tolazzi, O Abah, E Lutz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work and generally involve a large
number of particles. We report the experimental realization of a single-atom heat engine. An …

Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators

CF Ockeloen-Korppi, E Damskägg, JM Pirkkalainen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon whereby systems cannot be described
independently of each other, even though they may be separated by an arbitrarily large …

Quantum mechanics–free subsystem with mechanical oscillators

L Mercier de Lépinay, CF Ockeloen-Korppi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Quantum mechanics sets a limit for the precision of continuous measurement of the position
of an oscillator. We show how it is possible to measure an oscillator without quantum back …

Current fluctuations in open quantum systems: Bridging the gap between quantum continuous measurements and full counting statistics

GT Landi, MJ Kewming, MT Mitchison, PP Potts - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Continuously measured quantum systems are characterized by an output current, in the form
of a stochastic and correlated time series, which conveys crucial information about the …

Reconciliation of quantum local master equations with thermodynamics

G De Chiara, G Landi, A Hewgill, B Reid… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of open quantum systems often relies on approximate master equations derived
under the assumptions of weak coupling to the environment. However when the system is …

Beating the 3 db limit for intracavity squeezing and its application to nondemolition qubit readout

W Qin, A Miranowicz, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
While the squeezing of a propagating field can, in principle, be made arbitrarily strong, the
cavity-field squeezing is subject to the well-known 3 dB limit, and thus has limited …

Enhanced entanglement of two different mechanical resonators via coherent feedback

J Li, G Li, S Zippilli, D Vitali, T Zhang - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
It was shown [New J. Phys. 17, 103037 (2015) NJOPFM 1367-2630 10.1088/1367-
2630/17/10/103037] that large and robust entanglement between two different mechanical …

From cavity optomechanics to cavity-less exciton optomechanics: a review

H Chang, J Zhang - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cavity optomechanical coupling based on radiation pressure, photothermal forces and the
photoelastic effect has been investigated widely over the past few decades, including optical …

Quantum backaction evading measurement of collective mechanical modes

CF Ockeloen-Korppi, E Damskägg, JM Pirkkalainen… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The standard quantum limit constrains the precision of an oscillator position measurement. It
arises from a balance between the imprecision and the quantum backaction of the …

Generating quadrature squeezed light with dissipative optomechanical coupling

K Qu, GS Agarwal - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
The recent demonstration of cooling of a macroscopic silicon nitride membrane based on
dissipative coupling makes dissipatively coupled optomechanical systems promising …