Eur. Phys. J. D (2015) 69: 183
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2015-60107-7

Regular Article

Generation of entanglement in electro-mechanical systems: two micro-mechanical resonators coupled to a transmission-line resonator

Department of Physics, University of Isfahan, Hezar Jarib Ave., Isfahan, Iran

^a e-mail: rashedi@phys.ui.ac.ir

Received: 18 February 2015
Received in final form: 9 June 2015
Published online: 28 July 2015

Abstract

We propose a method to generate stationary entanglement between two macroscopic vibrating elements (micro-mechanical resonators (MRs)), via a transmission line resonator (TLR) field mode, where the MRs are coupled to the TLR capacitively. In this paper two situations are studied; (i) a driving on TLR field with an external microwave pulse, (ii) driving on TLR field and simultaneous driving on two MRs. Here, the entanglement is quantified by the logarithmic negativity. As our proposed system is a continuous variable system, the logarithmic negativity is defined in terms of covariance matrix. We have shown that the second case leads to much stronger entanglement, even at a few milli Kelvin temperatures.