[CTuP7B] Novel Quantum Systems

[CTuP7B-04] Single- and Multi-Phonon Subtraction to a Mechanical Thermal State via Optomechanics

*Andreas Svela^1,2, Georg Enzian^2,3, Lars Freisem^1,2, John J. Price^1,2, Jack Clarke¹, Biveen Shajilal⁴, Jiri Janousek⁴, Ben Buchler⁴, Ping K. Lam⁴, Michael Vanner^1,2 (1. Blackett Lab., Imperial College London (UK), 2. Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford (UK), 3. Niels Bohr Inst., Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark), 4. Res. School of Physics and Eng., Australian National Univ. (Australia))

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By heralding events of single- and multi-phonon subtraction to a mechanical thermal state in a Brillouin optomechanical system and using heterodyne tomography, we observe non-Gaussianity in the s-parameterised Wigner phase-space distribution.