Reservoir engineering of a mechanical resonator: generating a macroscopic superposition state and monitoring its decoherence
arXiv:1308.0259 · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/47/4/045502
Abstract
A deterministic scheme for generating a macroscopic superposition state of a nanomechanical resonator is proposed. The nonclassical state is generated through a suitably engineered dissipative dynamics exploiting the optomechanical quadratic interaction with a bichromatically driven optical cavity mode. The resulting driven dissipative dynamics can be employed for monitoring and testing the decoherence processes affecting the nanomechanical resonator under controlled conditions.
10 pages, 7 figures