Witnessing Optomechanical Entanglement with Photon Counting

Melvyn Ho, Enky Oudot, Jean-Daniel Bancal, and Nicolas Sangouard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 023602 – Published 11 July 2018
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Abstract

The ability to coherently control mechanical systems with optical fields has made great strides over the past decade, and now includes the use of photon counting techniques to detect the nonclassical nature of mechanical states. These techniques may soon be used to perform an optomechanical Bell test, hence highlighting the potential of cavity optomechanics for device-independent quantum information processing. Here, we propose a witness which reveals optomechanical entanglement without any constraint on the global detection efficiencies in a setup allowing one to test a Bell inequality. While our witness relies on a well-defined description and correct experimental calibration of the measurements, it does not need a detailed knowledge of the functioning of the optomechanical system. A feasibility study including dominant sources of noise and loss shows that it can readily be used to reveal optomechanical entanglement in present-day experiments with photonic crystal nanobeam resonators.

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  • Received 8 April 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.023602

© 2018 American Physical Society

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Quantum Information, Science & Technology

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Melvyn Ho, Enky Oudot, Jean-Daniel Bancal, and Nicolas Sangouard

  • Quantum Optics Theory Group, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

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Vol. 121, Iss. 2 — 13 July 2018

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