Ultrastrong magnon-photon coupling and entanglement in superconductor/ferromagnet nanostructures

Abstract: Ultrastrong light-matter coupling opens exciting possibilities to generate squeezed quantum states and entanglement. Here we propose a way to achieve this regime in superconducting hybrid nanostructures with ferromagnetic interlayers. Strong confinement of electromagnetic field between superconducting plates is found to result in the existence of magnon-polariton modes with ultrastrong magnon-photon coupling, ultra-high cooperativity and very large group velocities. These modes provide a numerically accurate explanation of recent experiments and have intriguing quantum properties. The magnon-polariton quantum vacuum consists of the squeezed magnon and photon states with the degree of squeezing controlled in wide limits by the external magnetic field. The ground state population of virtual photons and magnons is shown to be very large which can be used for generating correlated magnon and photon pairs. Excited states of magnon-polaritons contain bipartite entanglement between magnons and photons. This property can be used for transferring entanglement between different types of quantum systems.