Strong mechanical squeezing in an electromechanical system

Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 23;8(1):3513. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21949-y.

Abstract

The mechanical squeezing can be used to explore quantum behavior in macroscopic system and realize precision measurement. Here we present a potentially practical method for generating strong squeezing of the mechanical oscillator in an electromechanical system. Through the Coulomb interaction between a charged mechanical oscillator and two fixed charged bodies, we engineer a quadratic electromechanical Hamiltonian for the vibration mode of mechanical oscillator. We show that the strong position squeezing would be obtained on the currently available experimental technologies.