Phononic Josephson oscillation and self-trapping with two-phonon exchange interaction

Xun-Wei Xu; Ai-Xi Chen; Yu-xi Liu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023832

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Phononic Josephson oscillation and self-trapping with two-phonon exchange interaction

Xun-Wei Xu, Ai-Xi Chen, Yu-xi Liu

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.023832 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

We propose a bosonic Josephson junction (BJJ) in two nonlinear mechanical resonators coupled through two-phonon exchange interaction induced by quadratic optomechanical couplings. The nonlinear dynamical equations and effective Hamiltonian are derived to describe behaviors of the BJJ. We show that the BJJ can work in two different dynamical regimes: Josephson oscillation and macroscopic self-trapping. The system can transfer from one regime to the other one when the self-interaction and asymmetric parameters exceed their critical values. We show that the transition from Josephson oscillation to macroscopic self-trapping can be induced by the phonon damping of the asymmetric BJJ. Our results open up a way to demonstrate BJJ with two-phonon exchange interaction and might be applied to other systems.