Phonon-blockade-based multiple-photon bundle emission in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system

Ye-Jun Xu, Hong Xie

Front. Phys. ›› 2024, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3) : 32202.

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Phonon-blockade-based multiple-photon bundle emission in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system

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We propose a scheme to realize antibunched multiple-photon bundles based on phonon blockade in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. Through adjusting the detunings to match the conditions of phonon blockade in the photon sidebands, we establish super-Rabi oscillation between zero-photon state and multiple-photon states with adjustable super-Rabi frequencies under appropriate single-phonon resonant conditions. Taking the system dissipation into account, we numerically calculate the standard and generalized second-order functions of the cavity mode as well as the quantum trajectories of the state populations with Monte Carlo simulation to confirm that the emitted photons form antibunched multiple-photon bundles. Interestingly, the desirable n-photon states are reconstructed after a direct phonon emission based on phonon blockade, and thus the single-phonon emission heralds the cascade emission of n-photon bundles. Our proposal shows that the optomechanical system can simultaneously behave as antibunched multiple-photon emitter and single-phonon gun. Such a nonclassical source could have potential applications in quantum information science.

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multiple-photon bundle emission / phonon blockade / optomechanical system

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Ye-Jun Xu, Hong Xie. Phonon-blockade-based multiple-photon bundle emission in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. Front. Phys., 2024, 19(3): 32202 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-023-1352-9

1 Introduction

Preparation of nonclassical quantum states has always been an interesting and significant research topic in quantum physics. The significance of this subject not only is very useful for studying fundamental quantum physics [13], but also has potential applications in quantum information science [412]. So far, much effort has been devoted to the generation of multiple-quanta states in various physical systems such as cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) systems [1319], waveguide QED systems [2022], circuit QED systems [23], multiple-level atomic systems [2428], Rydberg atomic ensembles [29, 30], cavity optomechanical systems [31], and hybrid magnet-qubit systems [32]. One of the interesting aspects of these previous works is that n-quanta bundle states can be generated by emitting multiple-quanta bundles with the energy unit of a bundle of several quanta [1319, 23, 31, 32], and thus provide a mechanism for the realization of controllable multiple-quanta sources. In particular, Lü and co-workers pointed out that the single-photon emission event can act as the omen of the cascade emission of n-phonon bundles [15], since the system reconstructs the n-phonon state accompanied by a photon emission arising from the quantum dot flip. However, cascade emission of n-photon bundles through releasing direct single phonon between both neighboring bundles is still an interesting but open issue.
Cavity optomechanics [3337], exploring the nonlinear interaction via radiation-pressure force, has achieved great advances in both experimental and theoretical aspects for the past few decades. Among recent theoretical works, studies of optomechanical systems at the few-quantum level play an indispensable role and have predicted many interesting nonlinear quantum effects [3844], even though it has remained a challenge to observe single-photon optomechanical effects with current experimental techniques. For example, phonon blockade is a kind of typical quantum phenomenon at the few-quantum level [4550]. In analogy to photon blockade [5162] and magnon blockade [6367], phonon blockade is induced by mechanical anharmonicity ladder of energy spectrum with strong nonlinear interaction or destructive interference between different excitation paths. Phonon blockade provides a promising way to realize single-phonon source in which the presence of one phonon inhibits the excitation of the second phonon in a nonlinear mechanical oscillator. In addition, we notice that optomechanical system had been applied to investigate dynamical emission of phonon pairs based on the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage [31]. One question that arises naturally is whether n-photon bundle emission can be realized in optomechanical system, even without using the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage.
Motivated by previous proposals, here we propose a method to explore the antibunched n-photon bundle emission based on phonon blockade in a optomechanical system with quadratic coupling. The photon-assisted single-phonon transitions are achieved by the strong nonlinear photon-phonon interactions, in which the effective nonlinear coupling strength can be tuned by adjusting the amplitude of the driving field. Especially, the phonon blockade in the photon sidebands leads to the mechanical mode being in the zero-phonon state or the single-phonon state. As a result, the super-Rabi oscillation between the zero-photon state and the n-photon state can occur under the phonon blockade. Different from the previous work [15], here the n-photon emission is accompanied by emitting a single-phonon by reason of the phonon blockade effect and the system dissipation. Additionally, Ref. [31] depends on the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage to realize an antibunched phonon-pair gun, here our approach has a different physical mechanism for achieving super-Rabi oscillations, i.e., through the photon-assisted single-phonon transitions. Consequently, the controllable characteristic of the phonon blockade in the photon sidebands can switch on/off the occurrence of the n-photon bundle emission. Our work associates the preparation of n-photon bundle state with the single-phonon state generated by the phonon blockade and offers a feasible strategy for simultaneously realizing antibunched multiple-photon cascade emission and antibunched single-phonon emission in the optomechanical system.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we describe the theoretical model of a strongly driven optomechanical system with quadratic coupling and derive the approximate effective Hamiltonian under the single-phonon resonances. In Section 3, we study the eigensystem of the system in the displaced representation and establish the super-Pabi oscillation between the zero-photon state and the n-photon (n=2,3) state under proper resonant condition. We discuss the statistical properties of the multiple-photon bundle emission by numerically calculating the standard equal time high-order correlation functions, the standard and generalized time-delay second-order correlation functions, and the Monte Carlo simulations of state populations in Section 4. Finally, we give some discussions on the experimental realization and the main results are summarized in Section 5.

2 Model and Hamiltonian

As shown in Fig.1(a), we consider a quadratically coupled optomechanical system with a membrane-in-the-middle configuration, in which a thin dielectric membrane is located in a node (or antinode) of the intra-cavity standing wave inside a Fabry−Pérot cavity. In addition, we assume that a strong laser field with frequency ωd is applied to drive the cavity. In the frame rotating with respect to the driving frequency ωd, the Hamiltonian describing this system reads (=1)
Fig.1 (a) Schematic diagram of a quadratically coupled optomechanical system with a “membrane-in-middle” configuration. (b) Anharmonic energy-level diagram limited in the subspace spanned by the zero- and one-phonon states. States labelled as |n~(m),m denote the cavity mode being in m-phonon-dependent displaced Fock state and the mechanical mode being in m-phonon state. (c) Frequency spectrogram of the driven optomechanical system with quadratic coupling. There are high-order sidebands due to the nonlinear optomechanical interaction. (d) Illustration of cascade emission of antibunched n-photon (n=2,3) bundles, where the system releases each photon bundle accompanied by single-phonon emission.

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H=Hs+Hdr,
where
Hs=Δcaa+ωmbb+gaa(b+b)2
is the Hamiltonian of the quadratically coupled optomechanical system without driving term, Δc=ωcωd is the detuning between the cavity mode and driving field, ωm is the frequency of mechanical mode b, and g denotes the single-photon quadratic coupling strength. Hdr=Ω(a+a) is the Hamiltonian representing the coupling between cavity and the driving field with laser amplitude Ω and frequency ωd in the rotating picture. The evolution of this system with the relevant dissipations is then governed by the quantum Langevin equations
a˙=(iΔc+κ2)aiga(b+b)2iΩ+κain,b˙=(iωm+γ2)b2igaa(b+b)+γbin,
where κ (γ) is the decay rate of the optical (mechanical) mode and ain (bin) denotes the input noise operator. Following the standard linearization procedure, the cavity and mechanical modes can be written as a sum of an average value and a quantum fluctuation term for a sufficiently strong driving field, i.e., aα+a and bβ+b. Inserting these expressions into Eq. (3), one can derive the amplitudes α=Ω/(Δc+iκ/2) and β=0 in the steady-state case. Then the driven-displaced Hamiltonian is given by
Hdis=Δcaa+ωmbb+gα(a+a)(b+b)2,
when neglecting the high-order term gaa(b+b)2. Taking the cavity coherently driven near resonance (Δcωm) and gαωm into account, the rapidly oscillating terms with high frequencies ±2ωm can be safely omitted under the rotating-wave approximation. Thus the Hamiltonian of the system can be approximately expressed as
Happ=Δcaa+ωmbb+G(a+a)(bb+12),
with the enhanced coupling strength G=2gα. Furthermore, in order to realize phonon blockade by exploiting the anharmonicity ladder of energy spectrum in Eq. (5), a weak field with the frequency ωp and the amplitude ε is used to drive the mechanical mode, whose corresponding Hamiltonian is described by Hp=ε(beiωpt+beiωpt). The full Hamiltonian is written as
Htot=Δcaa+ωmbb+G(a+a)(bb+12)+Hp.
By performing a rotating transformation with respect to ωpbb, the Hamiltonian (6) becomes
Htot=Δcaa+Δmbb+G(a+a)(bb+12)+ε(b+b),
in which Δm=ωmωp is the detuning of the mechanical mode and the weak pump field. Here we mainly consider that the phonon blockade can occur under the strong optomechanical coupling, so that the mechanical mode is confined in the two lowest-energy levels (|0b, |1b). Then we can approximately rewrite the creation (annihilation) operator of the mechanical mode as b=|1bb0|=σ (b=|0bb1|=σ). In this case, the Hamiltonian in Eq.(7) takes the form
Heff=Δcaa+Δmσσ+G(a+a)(σσ+12)+ε(σ+σ).
This approximate effective Hamiltonian will be the starting point of this work as seen in the next sections. In order to check the validity of the approximation from Hamiltonian (8) to Hamiltonian (7), we employ the quantum master equation to numerically investigate the above analytic treatment. The dynamic behavior of the total open system is described by the master equation for the density matrix ρ
ρ˙=i[H,ρ]+κL[a]+γ(n¯th+1)L[σ]+γn¯thL[σ],
where L[o]=(2oρoooρρoo)/2 is the Lindblad super-operator for a given operator o=b,σ, and n¯th denotes the thermal phonon number in the mechanical mode. In Fig.2(a), we display the comparison of mean phonon number and qubit population by solving numerically master equation with Hamiltonian Htot (red sphere) and Hamiltonian Heff (blue solid line). We see that the two results are basically consistent. Particularly, the results agree very well with each other in single-phonon resonance cases. More specifically, the peaks in Fig.2(a) show several resolved resonances and arise from the transitions between the vacuum state |0,0 and the manifold of single-phonon state |n~(1),1 with |n~(1) being a phonon-dependent displaced number state. Accordingly, the dips in Fig.2(b), corresponding to the single-phonon resonance transition with Δm=2G2/ΔcnΔc, indicate the occurrence of phonon blockade in the photon sidebands. In this work, we focus on the single-phonon resonances and hence only consider the case of phonon blockade, so that we can carry out our calculation with Heff instead of Htot for simplicity.
Fig.2 (a) Steady-state mean phonon number bb and mean atomic excited-state probability σσ governed respectively by the Hamiltonians (7) and (8) as functions of the detuning Δm/Δg. (b) Steady-state equal-time second-order phonon correlation function gbb(2)(0) as a function of Δm/Δg. The other parameters are Δc/G=2, Δg=G2/Δc, κ/G=0.1, γ=0.01κ, ε/κ=0.1, and n¯th=0.

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3 Multiple-photon generation and super-Rabi oscillation

To discuss the generation of multi-photon state and the super-Rabi oscillation between the zero-photon state and the n-photon (n=2,3) state, we first apply the displacement operation
Ud=exp[GΔc(aa)(σσ+12)]
to the first three terms Hth=Δcaa+Δmσσ+G(σσ+12)(a+a) of Eq. (8), then this Hamiltonian becomes
Hth=Δcaa+(Δm2G2Δc)σσ,
which satisfies
Hth|n,0(1)=En,g(e)|n,0(1)
with eigenstates |n,0(1)|na|0(1)b and corresponding eigenvalues
En,0=nΔc,En,1=nΔc+Δm2G2Δc,
where |n,0 (|n,1) stands for the cavity mode being in n-photon Fock state and the mechanical mode being in zero-phonon (single-phonon) state in the displaced frame. When carrying out the inverse transformation, the eigenstate |n,0(1) turns into the displaced state |n~,0(1)=Ud|n,0(1) with
|n~=eGΔc(aa)(σσ+12)|na
being a phonon-dependent displaced Fock state of cavity mode. Obversely, |n~ has a highly adjustable displaced value through tuning the detuning Δc.
With the aid of completeness of |n,0(1), Hth can then be put into the form
Hth=n=0s=0,1En,s|n,sn,s|.
In the rotating frame defined by the unitary operator exp(iHtht), the system Hamiltonian is expressed as
HI=εl,n=0ei(En,1El,0)tan|eGΔc(aa)|la|n,1l,0|+H.c..
We choose the weak driving frequency ωp meeting the single-phonon resonance transition of |n,1|0,0 (i.e., nΔc+Δm2G2/Δc=0). Then the fast oscillating terms can be safely eliminated under the rotating-wave approximation. Meanwhile the phonon blockade can take place in the n-photon sidebands. The Hamiltonian Eq.(16) consequently reduces
H~I=εn=0an|G/Δca|n,10,0|+H.c.=εn=0Ωeff(n)|n,10,0|+H.c.,
where |G/Δca denotes the cavity field in the coherent state and Ωeff(n)=exp[G2/(2Δc2)](G/Δc)nε/n! is effective coupling strengths that can be conveniently controlled by choosing the detuning Δc. Thus the transfer from zero-photon states |0,0 to n photon states |n,1 is achieved via these effective couplings. In other words, one can obtain the multi-photon state |n,1 from Eq. (17) when the system is initially in the ground state |0,0. In Fig.3, we plot the populations of the states |0,0 and |n,1 (n=2,3) as functions of the scaled evolution time Gt, which display the essentially perfect super-Rabi oscillations in the absence of dissipation. The red and blue curves are obtained by numerically solving the Schrödinger equation with the full Hamiltonian in Eq. (8), as well as the marked ones are based on the analytical result given in Eq. (17). We clearly see from Fig.3 that the super-Rabi oscillations emerge between the two states |0,0 and |n,1 (n=2,3) for simulations and the effective analytic descriptions match the numerical results very well.
Fig.3 The state populations P|np|1 and P|0p|0 (n=2and3) are plotted as functions of the scaled time Gt in (a) for n=2, Δc/G=7.14, Δm=2G2/Δc2Δc and in (b) for n=3, Δc/G=2.86, Δm=2G2/Δc3Δc, and the common parameter ε/G=0.01. The red and blue curves correspond to the numerical results of the state populations, while the red square and blue circle correspond to the analytical results based on the effective Rabi frequencies Ωeff(2) and Ωeff(3).

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4 Multiple-photon bundle emission

The super-Rabi oscillation between the states |0,0 and |n,1 on the basis of the phonon blockade provides a physical mechanism to preparate n-photon state. However, to trigger n-photon bundle emission, the system dissipation has to be taken into account since the dissipation provides an effective radiation channel. Additionally, the condition κγ must be satisfied for greatly restraining the occurrence of the harmful transition |n,1|n,0. Inasmuch as the equal-time nth-order photon correlation function defined as g(n)(0)=anan/aancan reveal strong correlation of the emitted photons, we now first employ this function to analyze the quantum statistics of the n-photon states. Concretely, we mainly consider the 2-photon and 3-photon cases in the following discussion by numerically solving the quantum master equation in Eq. (9). Fig.4(a) exhibits the equal-time n th-order correlation functions (n=2,3) as functions of the scaled detuning Δm/Δc. It is clearly seen that some sharp dips instead of bunching peaks are observed for each g(n)(0) at n-photon resonance points Δm=2G2/ΔcnΔc, which manifests that the cavity emits its energy in the manner of antibunched n-photon bundles. To further characterize the bunching or antibunching effect between the n-photon bundles, we calculate the generalized time-delay second-order correlation function of N-photon bundle
Fig.4 (a) Zero-delay nth-order photon correlation functions g(n)(0) versus Δm/Δc. (b, c) The generalized time-delay second-order correlation functions gN(2)(τ) as functions of the scaled evolution time κτ for N=2 at (b) Δm=2G2/Δc2Δc, and at (c) Δm=2G2/Δc3Δc. The other parameters are κ=1, G/κ=10, Δc/G=2, γ/κ=0.01, and ε/κ=0.1, and n¯th=0.

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gN(2)(τ)=aN(0)aN(τ)aN(τ)aN(0)(aNaN)(0)(aNaN)(τ),
where the N-photon emission events are considered as a basic unit and g1(2)(τ) is exactly the standard time-delay second-order correlation function for the case of N=1. The numerical result in Fig.4(b) depicts that g1(2)(0)>g1(2)(τ) and g2(2)(0)<g2(2)(τ) are simultaneously satisfied in the case of Δm=2G2/Δc2Δc, which implies that the photons contained in each 2-photon pair take on bunching behavior and yet the relation between adjacent 2-photon pairs are antibunched. Similarly, we observe g1(2)(0)>g1(2)(τ) and g3(2)(0)<g3(2)(τ) for Δm=2G2/Δc3Δc in Fig.4(c), hence the strongly correlated 3-photon bundles can also be generated. Considering that the order n of the bundle can be controlled simply by adjusting the frequency of the pumping laser, our proposal realizes a versatile optically controlled multi-photon source.
To exhibit the multi-photon bundle emission process more clearly, we now apply the quantum Monte Carlo simulation to track the individual quantum trajectories of the system. The emission event is recorded whenever the system undergoes a quantum jump. Fig.5(a−c) present a small fraction of a quantum trajectory of the state populations P|m|0(1) (m=0,1,2) when n=2 and Δm=2G2/Δc2Δc. Here we consider the system is initially in the state |0|0. At first, the super-Rabi oscillation causes that two-photon state |2,1 is occupied with a probability close to 0.8%. As time goes on, the system emits one photon denoted by the first red triangle and then the wave function collapses into the state |1,1 with almost unit probability. Immediately, the second photon is emitted within the cavity lifetime (the second red triangle). Thus a bundle of two photons is emitted in a very short temporal window. The system then remains in the state |0,1 for a long time until two photon state is constructed again after a phonon emission. In Fig.5(d−g), we show a short duration of a quantum trajectory of the state populations P|m|0(1) (m=0,1,2,3) when n=3 and Δm=2G2/Δc3Δc. It can be seen that the 3-photon bundle emission can be realized in the same fashion way.
Fig.5 Small fraction of one quantum trajectory of the state populations P|n|0(1) (n=0,1,2,3) at (a−c) G/κ=10 and Δm=2G2/Δc2Δc, corresponding to the two-photon bundle emission; (d−g) G/κ=30 and Δm=2G2/Δc3Δc, corresponding to the three-photon bundle emission. The other parameters are Δc=G, γ/κ=0.01, ε/κ=0.2, and n¯th=0.

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5 Discussion and conclusion

In this section we first discuss the experimental prospect of our proposal. To implement the present scheme, the key challenge is to realize the ultrastrong optomechanical coupling condition (i.e., G>κ). Currently, the single-photon quadratic coupling strength g has been enhanced to 245 Hz in the photonic crystal optomechanical cavity [68], and likely enhanced to 100 kHz by carefully tuning the double-slotted photonic crystal structure, and then the effective coupling strength G=2gα can attain hundreds of MHz for α104 through adjusting the amplitude of driving field [69]. Therefore, the condition G>κ is possibly implemented in the photonic crystal cavity with the current experimental technology [70]. Besides that, an effective alternative approach to generating ultrastrong optomechanical coupling is to periodically modulate the membrane [71]. In this situation, the modulation of the spring constant gives rise to a mechanical parametric amplification with frequency 2ωd, amplitude χ, and phase φ. Then in a frame rotating of frequency ωd, the Hamiltonian of the mechanical oscillation reads
Hm=Δmbb+χ2(b2eiφ+b2eiφ),
in which the detuned mechanical parametric oscillator is stable in the region of χ<Δm=ωmωd. The quadratical coupling between the cavity and mechanical modes in the rotating frame of the modulation frequency is given by
Hom=gaa(beiωdt/2+beiωdt/2)2.
Under the condition of ωdg and ignoring the shift of cavity frequency caused by the term gaa, the interaction can be usually simplified as Hom=2gaabb by employing the rotating-wave approximation. When introducing a squeezed mechanical mode bv via Bogoliubov transformation bv=bcoshrd+beiφsinhrd with rd=14lnΔ+χΔχ and Δv=Δcosh2rd, we have Hm=Δvbvbv and
Hom=2gaa(bvcoshrdbveiφsinhrd)×(bvcoshrdbveiφsinhrd).
Assuming that φ=π and a large amplification (e2rd1), we easily find
Hom=12ge2rdaa(bv+bv)2.
Eq. (22) indicates that an exponentially enhanced single-photon coupling strength ge2rd/2 can be obtained. However, it is noticed that the mechanical paramtetric process will unavoidably increase the influence of mechanical noise. According to Ref. [71], here we point out that this amplified noise can be suppressed by introducing a broadband squeezed vacuum reservoir of the mechanical mode bv with a phase matching condition. In addition, the cavity is driven by a strong laser field in our model, which means that the emission of photon bundles is accompanied by a classical coherent field. In order to distinguish the two emitted signals and only observe that of emitted photon bundles, an ancillary cavity of operator c and frequency ωc is used to couple the optomechanical cavity and driven by a weak probe field [72]. Its dynamics is described by
c˙=(iΔc+κc)cigaca+2κccin,
where κc, Δc, gac and cin are the relevant damping rate, effective detuning, coupling strength, and input noise, respectively. Using the input-output relation cout= 2κcccin, we finally get
cout=i2gac/κca+cin,
which brings about a state swap between two cavity modes, and then the signal of emitted photon bundles can be monitored by directly measuring the ancillary cavity output cout.
In summary, we have studied the dynamical emission of multiple-photon states based on the phonon blockade in the optomechanical system with quadratic coupling. Through characterizing the mechanical mode only with its two lowest-energy levels when the phonon blockade happens in the photon sidebands and carrying out the displaced transformation, we obtain the super-Rabi oscillations between the vacuum state |0,0 and the n-photon states with one phonon |n,1, in which the effective super-Rabi frequencies can be conveniently controlled by tuning the detuning between the cavity mode and driving field. The n-photon bundle emission has been revealed by numerically calculating several typical correlation functions and the quantum Monter Carlo simulations. Especially, we have demonstrated that the release of single-phonon can act as a signal to predict the cascade emission of antibunched n-photon bundles. Hence our scheme simultaneously realizes antibunched multiple-photon emitter and single-phonon gun in the optomechanical system. We expect that this nonclassical source may have valuable applications in quantum information processing.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests and there are no conflicts.

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Data underlying the results presented in this paper are not publicly available at this time but may be obtained from the authors upon reasonable request.

Acknowledgements

Y.-J. Xu is supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of the Higher Education Institutions of Anhui Province under Grant No. 2022AH020097, the Excellent Scientific Research and Innovation Team of Anhui Colleges under Grant No. 2022AH010098, and the Collaborative Innovation Project of University of Anhui Province under Grant No. GXXT-2022-088. H. Xie is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12174054.

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