{
  "id": "1402.5057",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-02-20T16:17:01.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-06-17T20:43:25.000Z",
  "title": "Scheme for steady-state preparation of a harmonic oscillator in the first excited state",
  "authors": [
    "Kjetil Borkje"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures + supplementary (7 pages, 2 figures) v2: Minor changes, added a few references",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 90, 023806 (2014)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.90.023806",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a generic quantum master equation whose dissipative dynamics autonomously stabilizes a harmonic oscillator in the n=1 Fock state. A multi-mode optomechanical system is analyzed and shown to be an example of a physical system obeying this model. We show that the optomechanical setup enables preparation of a mechanical oscillator in a nonclassical steady state, and that this state indeed approaches a single phonon Fock state in the ideal parameter regime. The generic model may be useful in other settings, such as cavity or circuit quantum electrodynamics or trapped ion physics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-06-17T20:43:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "42.50.Pq",
      "42.50.Dv",
      "03.65.Yz",
      "03.67.Pp"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "first excited state",
      "harmonic oscillator",
      "steady-state preparation",
      "generic quantum master equation",
      "single phonon fock state"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Aug",
      "volume": 90,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": "023806"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvA..90b3806B"
    }
  }
}