Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator to the zero-point energy
arXiv:1903.10242 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.173601
Abstract
Optomechanical cavities in the well-resolved-sideband regime are ideally suited for the study of a myriad of quantum phenomena with mechanical systems, including backaction-evading measurements, mechanical squeezing, and generation of non-classical states. For these experiments, the mechanical oscillator should be prepared in its ground state; residual motion beyond the zero-point motion must be negligible. The requisite cooling of the mechanical motion can be achieved using the radiation pressure of light in the cavity by selectively driving the anti-Stokes optomechanical transition. To date, however, laser-absorption heating of optical systems far into the resolved-sideband regime has prohibited strong driving. For deep ground-state cooling, previous studies have therefore resorted to passive cooling in dilution refrigerators. Here, we employ a highly sideband-resolved silicon optomechanical crystal in a He buffer gas environment at to demonstrate laser sideband cooling to a mean thermal occupancy of quantum (self-calibrated using motional sideband asymmetry), which is of the oscillator's zero-point energy and corresponds to 92% ground state probability. Achieving such low occupancy by laser cooling opens the door to a wide range of quantum-optomechanical experiments in the optical domain.
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