Realization of the degenerate parametric oscillator in electromechanical systems
arXiv:1811.01605 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.99.045401
Abstract
We consider an electromechanical system where a microwave cavity is coupled to a mechanical resonator, with a mechanical frequency twice the microwave frequency. In this regime, the effective photon-phonon interaction is equivalent to that of a degenerate parametric amplifier, instead of the typical radiation pressure interaction. If the mechanical resonator is strongly driven, it undergoes a phase transition to a state where the energy pumped into the mechanical mode is entirely converted to the photonic mode. Quantum fluctuations smear this phase transition. We describe these effects with a steady-state Fokker-Planck equation in the complex P-representation, and compute the photonic field intensity and quadrature variances, as well as the mechanical amplitude. This Fokker-Planck method performs better than the standard linearization results, when compared to numerical simulations.
arXiv comment8 pages, 8 figures
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