title: Preparing a mechanical oscillator in non-gaussian quantum states.
abstract: We propose a protocol for coherently transferring non-Gaussian quantum states from an optical field to a mechanical oscillator. We demonstrate its experimental feasibility in future gravitational-wave detectors and tabletop optomechanical devices. This work not only outlines a feasible way to investigate nonclassicality in macroscopic optomechanical systems, but also presents a new and elegant approach for solving non-Markovian open quantum dynamics in general linear systems.
authors.affiliation: Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
authors.forename: Farid
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khalili
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Danilishin
authors.forename: Haixing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Miao
authors.forename: Helge
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Müller-Ebhardt
authors.forename: Huan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yanbei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen