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Published on: May 30, 2014
Universality of Stationary Entanglement in an Optomechanical System Driven by Non-Markovian Noise and Squeezed Light
Su Direkci1, Klemens Winkler2, Corentin Gut2
1California Institute of Technology, The Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Abstract:
Optomechanical systems subjected to environmental noise give rise to rich physical phenomena. We investigate entanglement between a mechanical oscillator and the reflected coherent optical field in a general, not necessarily Markovian environment. For the input optical field, we consider stationary Gaussian states and frequency-dependent squeezing. We demonstrate that for a coherent laser drive, either unsqueezed or squeezed in a frequency-independent manner, optomechanical entanglement is destroyed after a threshold that depends only on the environmental noises-independent of the coherent coupling between the oscillator and the optical field, or the squeeze factor. In this way, we have found a universal entangling-disentangling transition. We also show that for a configuration in which the oscillator and the reflected field are separable, entanglement cannot be generated by incorporating frequency-dependent squeezing in the optical field.
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