Phonon Cooling by an Optomechanical Heat Pump

Ying Dong, F. Bariani, P. Meystre

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Abstract

We propose and analyze theoretically a cavity optomechanical analog of a heat pump that uses a polariton fluid to cool mechanical modes coupled to a single precooled phonon mode via external modulation of the substrate of the mechanical resonator. This approach permits us to cool phonon modes of arbitrary frequencies not limited by the cavity-optical field detuning deep into the quantum regime from room temperature.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number223602
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume115
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 25 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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