Parametrically enhanced interactions and non-trivial bath dynamics in a photon-pressure Kerr amplifier
arXiv:2203.12058 · doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq1690
Abstract
Photon-pressure coupling between two superconducting circuits is a promising platform for investigating radiation-pressure coupling in novel parameter regimes and for the development of radio-frequency (RF) quantum photonics and quantum-limited RF sensing. So far, the intrinsic Josephson nonlinearity of photon-pressure coupled circuits has not been considered a potential resource for enhanced devices or novel experimental schemes. Here, we implement photon-pressure coupling between a RF circuit and a microwave cavity containing a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) which can be operated as a Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA). We demonstrate a Kerr-based enhancement of the photon-pressure single-photon coupling rate and an increase of the cooperativity by one order of magnitude in the amplifier regime. In addition, we characterize the upconverted and Kerr-amplified residual thermal fluctuations of the RF circuit, and observe that the intracavity amplification reduces the measurement imprecision. Finally, we demonstrate that RF mode sideband-cooling is surprisingly not limited to the effective amplifier mode temperature arising from quantum noise amplification, which we explain by non-trivial bath dynamics due to a two-stage amplification process. Our results demonstrate how Kerr nonlinearities and in particular Josephson parametric amplification can be utilized as resource for enhanced photon-pressure systems and Kerr cavity optomechanics.
References in corpus (58)
- Cavity Optomechanics
- Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state
- Sideband Cooling Micromechanical Motion to the Quantum Ground State
- Introduction to Quantum Noise, Measurement and Amplification
- Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Slow Light with Optomechanics
- Bidirectional and efficient conversion between microwave and optical light
- Quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator
- Amplification and squeezing of quantum noise with a tunable Josephson metamaterial
- Remote quantum entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators
- Entangled massive mechanical oscillators
- Confining the state of light to a quantum manifold by engineered two-photon loss
- Generalized nonreciprocity in an optomechanical circuit via synthetic magnetism and reservoir engineering
- Preparation and Detection of a Mechanical Resonator Near the Ground State of Motion
- Nanomechanical motion measured with precision beyond the standard quantum limit
- Phase preserving amplification near the quantum limit with a Josephson Ring Modulator
- A quantum-enhanced search for dark matter axions
- Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit
- Microwave amplification with nanomechanical resonators
- Dispersive magnetometry with a quantum limited SQUID parametric amplifier
- Microwave-to-optics conversion using a mechanical oscillator in its quantum groundstate
- Back-action Evading Measurements of Nanomechanical Motion
- Continuous Force and Displacement Measurement Below the Standard Quantum Limit
- Mechanical On-Chip Microwave Circulator
- Control of microwave signals using circuit nano-electromechanics
- Stationary Entangled Radiation from Micromechanical Motion
- Measuring nanomechanical motion with an imprecision far below the standard quantum limit
- A tunable Josephson platform to explore many-body quantum optics in circuit-QED
- Optomechanical-like coupling between superconducting resonators
- Dynamics of a movable micro-mirror in a nonlinear optical cavity
- Ground state cooling and high-fidelity quantum transduction via parametrically-driven bad-cavity optomechanics
- Intracavity-squeezed optomechanical cooling
- Electromechanically induced absorption in a circuit nano-electromechanical system
- Low-noise amplification and frequency conversion with a multiport microwave optomechanical device
- A quantum heat engine with coupled superconducting resonators
- Circuit analog of quadratic optomechanics
- Coupling microwave photons to a mechanical resonator using quantum interference
- Optomechanical cooling with intracavity squeezed light
- Spectral Evidence of Squeezing of a Weakly Damped Driven Nanomechanical Mode
- Realizing a Circuit Analog of an Optomechanical System with Longitudinally Coupled Superconducting Resonators
- Cavity electromechanics with parametric mechanical driving
- Non-degenerate parametric amplifiers based on dispersion engineered Josephson junction arrays
- Flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifiers: Hysteretic flux response and nondegenerate gain measurements
- Photon-Pressure Strong-Coupling between two Superconducting Circuits
- Quantum analysis of a nonlinear microwave cavity-embedded dc SQUID displacement detector
- Single-photon cooling in microwave magneto-mechanics
- Strong and tunable couplings in flux-mediated optomechanics
- Sideband-resolved resonator electromechanics on the single-photon level based on a nonlinear Josephson inductance
- Four-wave-cooling to the single phonon level in Kerr optomechanics
- Realizing modular quadrature measurements via a tunable photon-pressure coupling in circuit-QED
- Thermal radiation from optically driven Kerr () photonic cavities
- Large flux-mediated coupling in hybrid electromechanical system with a transmon qubit
- A micro-SQUID with dispersive readout for magnetic scanning microscopy
- Probing a two-level system bath via the frequency shift of an off-resonantly-driven cavity
- Optomechanics with a position-modulated Kerr-type nonlinear coupling
- Floquet dynamics in quantum measurement of mechanical motion
- Cooling photon-pressure circuits into the quantum regime
- Optomechanical microwave amplification without mechanical amplification
- Current detection using a Josephson parametric upconverter
Cited by in corpus (5)
- Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing with a Parametric Superconducting Resonator
- High-Purity Entanglement of Hot Propagating Modes Using Nonreciprocity
- Strong Intrinsic Longitudinal Coupling in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics
- Photon-Pressure with an Effective Negative Mass Microwave Mode
- Intrinsic Kerr amplification for microwave electromechanics