Ground-State Cooling of a Mechanical Oscillator by Interference in Andreev Reflection
P. Stadler, W. Belzig, G. Rastelli
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.197202 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We study the ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator linearly coupled to the charge of a quantum dot inserted between a normal metal and a superconducting contact. Such a system can be realized, e.g., by a suspended carbon nanotube quantum dot with a capacitive coupling to a gate contact. Focusing on the subgap transport regime, we analyze the inelastic Andreev reflections which drive the resonator to a nonequilibrium state. For small coupling, we obtain that vibration-assisted reflections can occur through two distinct interference paths. The interference determines the ratio between the rates of absorption and emission of vibrational energy quanta. We show that ground-state cooling of the mechanical oscillator can be achieved for many of the oscillator’s modes simultaneously or for single modes selectively, depending on the experimentally tunable coupling to the superconductor.
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