We propose a scheme for the generation of a robust stationary squeezed state of a mechanical resonator in a quadratically coupled optomechanical system, driven by a pulsed laser. The intracavity photon number presents periodic intense peaks suddenly stiffening the effective harmonic potential felt by the mechanical resonator. These “optical spring kicks” tend to squeeze the resonator position, and due to the interplay with fluctuation-dissipation processes one can generate a stationary state with more than 10 dB of squeezing in a realistic scenario, even starting from moderately “precooled” initial thermal states.

Cavity magnomechanics has recently become a new platform for studying macroscopic quantum phenomena. The magnetostriction induced vibration mode of a large-size ferromagnet or ferrimagnet reaching its ground state represents a genuine macroscopic quantum state. Here we study the ground-state cooling of the mechanical vibration mode in a cavity magnomechanical system, and focus on the role of magnon squeezing in improving the cooling efficiency. The magnon squeezing is obtained by exploiting the magnon self-Kerr nonlinearity. We find that the magnon squeezing can significantly and even completely suppress the magnomechanical Stokes scattering. It thus becomes particularly useful in realizing ground-state cooling in the unresolved-sideband regime, where the conventional sideband cooling protocols become inefficient. We also find that the coupling to the microwave cavity plays only an adverse effect in mechanical cooling. This makes essentially the two-mode magnomechanical system (without involving the microwave cavity) a preferred system for cooling the mechanical motion, in which the magnon mode is established by a uniform bias magnetic field and a microwave drive field.

In this paper, we present a coherent feedback loop scheme to enhance the magnon–photon–phonon entanglement in cavity magnomechanics. We provide a proof that the steady state and dynamical state of the system form a genuine tripartite entanglement state. To quantify the entanglement in the bipartite subsystem and the genuine tripartite entanglement, we use the logarithmic negativity and the minimum residual contangle, respectively, in both the steady and dynamical regimes. We demonstrate the feasibility of our proposal by implementing it with experimentally realizable parameters to achieve the tripartite entanglement. We also show that the entanglement can be significantly improved with coherent feedback by appropriately tuning the reflective parameter of the beam splitter and that it is resistant to environmental thermalization. Our findings pave the way for enhancing entanglement in magnon–photon–phonon systems and may have potential applications in quantum information.

We analyze the performance of optomechanical cooling of a mechanical resonator in the presence of a degenerate optical parametric amplifier within the optomechanical cavity, which squeezes the cavity light. We demonstrate that this allows to significantly enhance the cooling efficiency via the coherent suppression of Stokes scattering. The enhanced cooling occurs also far from the resolved sideband regime, and we show that this cooling scheme can be more efficient than schemes realized by injecting a squeezed field into the optomechanical cavity.

We develop a theory of optomechanical cooling with a squeezed input light field. We show that Stokes heating transitions can be fully suppressed when the driving field is squeezed below the vacuum noise level at an appropriately selected squeezing phase and for a finite amount of squeezing. The quantum backaction limit to laser cooling can be therefore moved down to zero and the resulting final temperature is then solely determined by the ratio between the thermal phonon number and the optomechanical cooperativity parameter, independently of the actual values of the cavity linewidth and mechanical frequency. Therefore, driving with a squeezed input field allows us to prepare nanomechanical resonators, even with low resonance frequency, in their quantum ground state with a fidelity very close to one.