Cooling a mechanical resonator via coupling to a tunable double quantum dot

Details Cooling a mechanical resonator via coupling to a tunable double quantum dot Cooling a mechanical resonator via coupling to a tunable double quantum dot

2008-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4833v1

Phys. Rev. B 79, 075304 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.79.075304

We study the cooling of a mechanical resonator (MR) that is capacitively coupled to a double quantum dot (DQD). The MR is cooled by the dynamical backaction induced by the capacitive coupling between the DQD and the MR. The DQD is excited by a microwave field and afterwards a tunneling event results in the decay of the excited state of the DQD. An important advantage of this system is that both the energy level splitting and the decay rate of the DQD can be well tuned by varying the gate voltage. We find that the steady average occupancy, below unity, of the MR can be achieved by changing both the decay rate of the excited state and the detuning between the transition frequency of the DQD and the microwave frequency, in analogy to the laser sideband cooling of an atom or trapped ion in atomic physics. Our results show that the cooling of the MR to the ground state is experimentally implementable.

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