title: Engineering nonclassicality in a mechanical system through photon subtraction.
abstract: Nonclassical states of a mechanical mode at nonzero temperature are achieved in a scheme that combines radiation-pressure coupling to a light field and photon subtraction. The scheme embodies an original and experimentally realistic way to obtain mesoscopic quantumness by putting together two mature technologies for quantum control. The protocol is quasi-insensitive to mechanical damping.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paternostro