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@article{Clarke:2025:10.1103/PhysRevA.111.023516,
author = {Clarke, J and Cryer-Jenkins, EA and Gupta, A and Major, KD and Zhang, J and Enzian, G and Szczykulska, M and Leung, AC and Rathee, H and Svela, A and Tan, AKC and Beige, A and Mølmer, K and Vanner, MR},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.111.023516},
journal = {Physical Review A},
title = {Theoretical framework for enhancing or enabling cooling of a mechanical resonator via the anti-Stokes or Stokes interaction and zero-photon detection},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.111.023516},
volume = {111},
year = {2025}
}
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TY - JOUR
AB - We develop a theoretical framework to describe how zero-photon detection may be utilized to enhance optomechanical laser cooling via the anti-Stokes interaction and, somewhat surprisingly, enable cooling via the Stokes interaction commonly associated with heating. Our description includes both pulsed and continuous measurements as well as optical detection efficiency and open-system dynamics. For both cases, we discuss how the cooling depends on the system parameters such as detection efficiency and optomechanical cooperativity, and we study the continuous-measurement-induced dynamics, contrasting with single-photon-detection events. For the Stokes case, we explore the interplay between cooling and heating via optomechanical parametric amplification, and we find the minimum efficiency required to cool a mechanical oscillator via zero-photon detection. This work serves as a companion article to our recent experiment [E. A. Cryer-Jenkins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 073601 (2025)10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.073601], which demonstrated enhanced laser cooling of a mechanical oscillator via zero-photon detection on the anti-Stokes signal. The cooling techniques developed here can be applied to a wide range of areas including nonclassical state preparation, quantum thermodynamics, and avoiding the often unwanted heating effects of parametric amplification.
AU - Clarke,J
AU - Cryer-Jenkins,EA
AU - Gupta,A
AU - Major,KD
AU - Zhang,J
AU - Enzian,G
AU - Szczykulska,M
AU - Leung,AC
AU - Rathee,H
AU - Svela,A
AU - Tan,AKC
AU - Beige,A
AU - Mølmer,K
AU - Vanner,MR
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.111.023516
PY - 2025///
SN - 2469-9926
TI - Theoretical framework for enhancing or enabling cooling of a mechanical resonator via the anti-Stokes or Stokes interaction and zero-photon detection
T2 - Physical Review A
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.111.023516
VL - 111
ER -