Controlling steady-state bipartite entanglement and quadrature squeezing in a membrane-in-the-middle optomechanical system with two Bose-Einstein condensates

Abstract

We study theoretically a driven hybrid optomechanical system with a membrane-in-the-middle configuration containing two identical elongated cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in each side of the membrane. In the weakly interacting regime, the BECs can be considered as single-mode oscillators in the Bogoliubov approximation which are coupled to the optical field through the radiation pressure interaction so that they behave as two quasimembranes. We show that the degree of squeezing of each BEC and its entanglement with the moving membrane can be controlled by the s-wave scattering frequency of the other one. Since the s-wave frequency of each BEC depends on the transverse trapping frequency of the atoms, which is an experimentally controllable parameter, one can control the entanglement and squeezing of each BEC through the trapping frequency of the other one. © 2017 American Physical Society.