Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-17-2008
Publication Title
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We carry out a quantum analysis of a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) mechanical displacement detector, comprising a SQUID with mechanically compliant loop segment, which is embedded in a microwave transmission line resonator. The SQUID is approximated as a nonlinear current-dependent inductance, inducing an external flux tunable nonlinear Duffing self-interaction term in the microwave resonator mode equation. Motion of the compliant SQUID loop segment is transduced inductively through changes in the external flux threading SQUID loop, giving a ponderomotive radiation pressure-type coupling between the microwave and mechanical resonator modes. Expressions are derived for the detector signal response and noise, and it is found that a soft-spring Duffing self-interaction enables a closer approach to the displacement detection standard quantum limit, as well as cooling closer to the ground state.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.78.104516
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Nation, P. D.; Blencowe, M. P.; and Buks, E., "Quantum Analysis of a Nonlinear Microwave Cavity-Embedded dc SQUID Displacement Detector" (2008). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1937.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1937
