Near-ground state cooling in electromechanics using measurement-based feedback and Josephson parametric amplifier

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Main Authors: Rej, Ewa, Cutting, Richa, Datta, Debopam, Tiencken, Nils, Govenius, Joonas, Vesterinen, Visa, Liu, Yulong, Sillanpää, Mika A.
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author Rej, Ewa
Cutting, Richa
Datta, Debopam
Tiencken, Nils
Govenius, Joonas
Vesterinen, Visa
Liu, Yulong
Sillanpää, Mika A.
author_facet Rej, Ewa
Cutting, Richa
Datta, Debopam
Tiencken, Nils
Govenius, Joonas
Vesterinen, Visa
Liu, Yulong
Sillanpää, Mika A.
contents Feedback-based control of nano- and micromechanical resonators can enable the study of macroscopic quantum phenomena and also sensitive force measurements. Here, we demonstrate the feedback cooling of a low-loss and high-stress macroscopic SiN membrane resonator close to its quantum ground state. We use the microwave optomechanical platform, where the resonator is coupled to a microwave cavity. The experiment utilizes a Josephson travelling wave parametric amplifier, which is nearly quantum-limited in added noise, and is important to mitigate resonator heating due to system noise in the feedback loop. We reach a thermal phonon number as low as 1.6, which is limited primarily by microwave-induced heating. We also discuss the sideband asymmetry observed when a weak microwave tone for independent readout is applied in addition to other tones used for the cooling. The asymmetry can be qualitatively attributed to the quantum-mechanical imbalance between emission and absorption. However, we find that the observed asymmetry is only partially due to this quantum effect. In specific situations, the asymmetry is fully dominated by a cavity Kerr effect under multitone irradiation.
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spellingShingle Near-ground state cooling in electromechanics using measurement-based feedback and Josephson parametric amplifier
Rej, Ewa
Cutting, Richa
Datta, Debopam
Tiencken, Nils
Govenius, Joonas
Vesterinen, Visa
Liu, Yulong
Sillanpää, Mika A.
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Feedback-based control of nano- and micromechanical resonators can enable the study of macroscopic quantum phenomena and also sensitive force measurements. Here, we demonstrate the feedback cooling of a low-loss and high-stress macroscopic SiN membrane resonator close to its quantum ground state. We use the microwave optomechanical platform, where the resonator is coupled to a microwave cavity. The experiment utilizes a Josephson travelling wave parametric amplifier, which is nearly quantum-limited in added noise, and is important to mitigate resonator heating due to system noise in the feedback loop. We reach a thermal phonon number as low as 1.6, which is limited primarily by microwave-induced heating. We also discuss the sideband asymmetry observed when a weak microwave tone for independent readout is applied in addition to other tones used for the cooling. The asymmetry can be qualitatively attributed to the quantum-mechanical imbalance between emission and absorption. However, we find that the observed asymmetry is only partially due to this quantum effect. In specific situations, the asymmetry is fully dominated by a cavity Kerr effect under multitone irradiation.
title Near-ground state cooling in electromechanics using measurement-based feedback and Josephson parametric amplifier
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02319