Alekhya Ghosh

Theory of phase-adaptive parametric cooling

Alekhya Ghosh, Pardeep Kumar, Fidel Jimenez, Vivishek Sudhir, Claudiu Genes

We propose an adaptive phase technique for the parametric cooling of<br>mechanical resonances. This involves the detection of the mechanical<br>quadratures, followed by a sequence of periodic controllable adjustments of the<br>phase of a parametric modulation. The technique allows the preparation of the<br>quantum ground state with an exponential loss of thermal energy, similarly to<br>the case of cold-damping or cavity self-cooling. Analytical derivations are<br>presented for the cooling rate and final occupancies both in the classical and<br>quantum regimes.<br>