Magnon-microwave backaction noise evasion in cavity magnomechanics

Abstract

In cavity magnomechanical systems, magnetic excitations couple simultaneously with mechanical vibrations and microwaves, combining the tunability of the magnetization, the long lifetimes of mechanical modes and the whole measurement toolbox of microwave systems. Such hybrid systems have been proposed for applications ranging from thermometry to entanglement generation. However, backaction noise can hinder the measurement of the mechanical vibrations, potentially rendering such applications infeasible. In this paper, we investigate the noise introduced in a mechanical mode of a cavity magnomechanical system in a one-tone drive scheme and propose a scheme for realizing backaction evasion measurements of the mechanical vibrations. Our proposal consists of driving the microwave cavity with two tones separated by twice the phonon frequency and with amplitudes balanced to generate equal numbers of coherent magnons. We demonstrate that different configurations of such a scheme are possible and show that drives centered around the lower frequency magnon-microwave polariton in a triple resonance scheme add the minimum imprecision noise in the measurement, even though such configuration is not the most robust to imperfections.