Optomechanical disk resonator in the quantum ground state of motion
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| author | Barbero, Andrea Pautrel, Samuel Evrard, Bertrand Bon, Jérémy Dezert, Romain Lemaître, Aristide Borne, Adrien Favero, Ivan |
| author_facet | Barbero, Andrea Pautrel, Samuel Evrard, Bertrand Bon, Jérémy Dezert, Romain Lemaître, Aristide Borne, Adrien Favero, Ivan |
| contents | Although they have enabled several advances in the field of optomechanics, optomechanical disk resonators have not yet been operated in the quantum regime. We present the first experimental demonstration of an optomechanical disk resonator prepared in the quantum ground state. With a gigahertz frequency, the mechanical breathing mode of the investigated semiconductor disk reaches a level of excitation below a single phonon when cooled in a dilution refrigerator. We quantify the phonon occupancy of the mechanical mode by performing Brillouin sideband spectroscopy: a conical optical fiber is evanescently coupled to the disk optical whispering-gallery mode, and Stokes and anti-Stokes photons scattered by phonon emission and absorption are counted on a single-photon detector. We measure a suppression of the absorption process corresponding to a phonon occupancy of $0.66\pm0.20$. We experimentally investigate the mechanisms ruling laser-induced heating, which limits the lowest measurable phonon occupancy, and notably witness an extra-cavity heating effect. |
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| spellingShingle | Optomechanical disk resonator in the quantum ground state of motion Barbero, Andrea Pautrel, Samuel Evrard, Bertrand Bon, Jérémy Dezert, Romain Lemaître, Aristide Borne, Adrien Favero, Ivan Quantum Physics Although they have enabled several advances in the field of optomechanics, optomechanical disk resonators have not yet been operated in the quantum regime. We present the first experimental demonstration of an optomechanical disk resonator prepared in the quantum ground state. With a gigahertz frequency, the mechanical breathing mode of the investigated semiconductor disk reaches a level of excitation below a single phonon when cooled in a dilution refrigerator. We quantify the phonon occupancy of the mechanical mode by performing Brillouin sideband spectroscopy: a conical optical fiber is evanescently coupled to the disk optical whispering-gallery mode, and Stokes and anti-Stokes photons scattered by phonon emission and absorption are counted on a single-photon detector. We measure a suppression of the absorption process corresponding to a phonon occupancy of $0.66\pm0.20$. We experimentally investigate the mechanisms ruling laser-induced heating, which limits the lowest measurable phonon occupancy, and notably witness an extra-cavity heating effect. |
| title | Optomechanical disk resonator in the quantum ground state of motion |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15492 |