Entanglement of two movable mirrors with a single photon superposition state**We extend our heartiest congratulations to Margarita and Vladimir Manʼko of a magnificent 150 years and dedicate this article to them.

Abstract

We propose a simple scheme to generate deterministic entanglement between two movable end mirrors in a Fabry–Perot cavity using a single photon superposition state. We derive analytically the expressions of the generated entangled states and the degree of entanglement for each state. We show that strong entanglement can be obtained either in the single-photon strong coupling regime deterministically or in the single-photon weak coupling regime conditionally.