Simultaneous ground-state cooling of two mechanical modes of a levitated nanoparticle

J Piotrowski, D Windey, J Vijayan… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The quantum ground state of a massive mechanical system is a step** stone for
investigating macroscopic quantum states and building high fidelity sensors. With the recent …

Multimode optomechanical cooling via general dark-mode control

J Huang, DG Lai, C Liu, JF Huang, F Nori, JQ Liao - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The dark-mode effect is a stubborn obstacle for ground-state cooling of multiple degenerate
mechanical modes optomechanically coupled to a common cavity-field mode. Here we …

Thermal-noise-resistant optomechanical entanglement via general dark-mode control

J Huang, DG Lai, JQ Liao - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Quantum entanglement not only plays an important role in the study of the fundamentals of
quantum theory, but also is considered as a crucial resource in quantum information …

Ground-state cooling in cavity optomechanical systems

P Wen, M Wang, GL Long - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The development of quantum optomechanics enables the manipulation of the quantum state
of a macroscopic object and the conversion of frequency in different domains in quantum …

Synchronization of spin-driven limit cycle oscillators optically levitated in vacuum

O Brzobohatý, M Duchaň, P Jákl, J Ježek… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We explore, experimentally and theoretically, the emergence of coherent coupled
oscillations and synchronization between a pair of non-Hermitian, stochastic, opto …

Efficient optomechanical refrigeration of two vibrations via an auxiliary feedback loop: Giant enhancement in mechanical susceptibilities and net cooling rates

DG Lai, W Qin, A Miranowicz, F Nori - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We propose a method to realize the simultaneous ground-state refrigeration of two
vibrational modes beyond the resolved-sideband regime via an auxiliary feedback loop …

Tuneable Gaussian entanglement in levitated nanoparticle arrays

AK Chauhan, O Černotík, R Filip - npj Quantum Information, 2022 - nature.com
Optically levitated nanoparticles emerged as an interesting platform for probing fundamental
physics. Quantum control of their motion (including potential sha**) predisposes them for …

Optomechanical dark-mode-breaking cooling

Y Cao, C Yang, J Sheng, H Wu - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
Optomechanical cooling of multiple degenerate mechanical modes is prevented by the
mechanical dark mode due to destructive interference. Here, we report the first experimental …

Simultaneous ground-state cooling of multiple degenerate mechanical modes through the cross-Kerr effect

P Wen, X Mao, M Wang, C Wang, GQ Li, GL Long - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Simultaneous ground-state cooling of multiple degenerate mechanical modes is a difficult
issue in optomechanical systems, owing to the existence of the dark mode effect. Here we …

Dark-mode theorems for quantum networks

J Huang, C Liu, XW Xu, JQ Liao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2312.06274, 2023 - arxiv.org
We propose and prove two theorems for determining the number of dark modes in linear two-
component quantum networks composed of two types of bosonic modes. This is achieved by …