Optomechanical preparation of photon number-squeezed states with a pair of thermal reservoirs of opposite temperatures

Baiqiang Zhu; Keye Zhang; Weiping Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.491788

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 9, A26(2023)

Optomechanical preparation of photon number-squeezed states with a pair of thermal reservoirs of opposite temperatures

Baiqiang Zhu^1,2, Keye Zhang^1,2、*, and Weiping Zhang^2,3,4,5

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²Shanghai Branch, Hefei National Laboratory, Shanghai 201315, China

³School of Physics and Astronomy, and Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

⁴Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁵Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Special Issue: OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS

Received: Apr. 7, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 22, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Keye Zhang (kyzhang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.491788

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