Cavity magnomechanics has recently become a new platform for studying macroscopic quantum phenomena.The magnetostriction induced vibration mode of a large-size ferromagnet or ferrimagnet reaching its ground state repr...Cavity magnomechanics has recently become a new platform for studying macroscopic quantum phenomena.The magnetostriction induced vibration mode of a large-size ferromagnet or ferrimagnet reaching its ground state represents a genuine macroscopic quantum state.Here we study the ground-state cooling of the mechanical vibration mode in a cavity magnomechanical system,and focus on the role of magnon squeezing in improving the cooling efficiency.The magnon squeezing is obtained by exploiting the magnon self-Kerr nonlinearity.We find that the magnon squeezing can significantly and even completely suppress the magnomechanical Stokes scattering.It thus becomes particularly useful in realizing ground-state cooling in the unresolved-sideband regime,where the conventional sideband cooling protocols become inefficient.We also find that the coupling to the microwave cavity plays only an adverse effect in mechanical cooling.This makes essentially the two-mode magnomechanical system(without involving the microwave cavity)a preferred system for cooling the mechanical motion,in which the magnon mode is established by a uniform bias magnetic field and a microwave drive field.展开更多
基金supported by Zhejiang Province Program for Science and Technology(2020C01019)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1801661,11874249,11934010,12174329).
文摘Cavity magnomechanics has recently become a new platform for studying macroscopic quantum phenomena.The magnetostriction induced vibration mode of a large-size ferromagnet or ferrimagnet reaching its ground state represents a genuine macroscopic quantum state.Here we study the ground-state cooling of the mechanical vibration mode in a cavity magnomechanical system,and focus on the role of magnon squeezing in improving the cooling efficiency.The magnon squeezing is obtained by exploiting the magnon self-Kerr nonlinearity.We find that the magnon squeezing can significantly and even completely suppress the magnomechanical Stokes scattering.It thus becomes particularly useful in realizing ground-state cooling in the unresolved-sideband regime,where the conventional sideband cooling protocols become inefficient.We also find that the coupling to the microwave cavity plays only an adverse effect in mechanical cooling.This makes essentially the two-mode magnomechanical system(without involving the microwave cavity)a preferred system for cooling the mechanical motion,in which the magnon mode is established by a uniform bias magnetic field and a microwave drive field.
