Frequency‐Modulation‐Enhanced Ground‐State Cooling of Coupled Mechanical Resonators

Abstract

AbstractThe coupled mechanical resonators (MRs) are the prominent candidate for studying macroscopic quantum coherence. The prerequisite for observing macroscopic mechanical coherence is cooling the MRs to their ground state. Here, a theoretical scheme is proposed for improving the cooling of two coupled MRs by imposing frequency modulation (FM) upon the system to suppress the Stokes heating processes. By the methods of covariance analysis and numerical simulations, it is demonstrated that the cooling of double MRs can be realized in both stable and unstable regions with high efficiency compared to the cooling without FM, even if in unresolved sideband (USB) regime. By modulating the parameters appropriately, the cooling efficiencies of two MRs can be flexibly adjusted.