Two-tone modulated cavity electromagnonics

Abstract: Cavity electromagnonics has increasingly emerged as a new platform for the fundamental study of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies. Since the coupling between the microwave field and magnon Kittle modes in current experiments is much weaker than their resonant frequencies, the anti-rotating terms in magnon-microwave-photon interaction can be neglected and only the beam-splitter-like part takes effect. In this situation, the direct generation of magnonic nonclassical states is impossible, unless other subsystems e.g. phonons, squeezed photons or superconducting qubits are incorporated. In this paper, we consider two-tone modulated cavity electromagnonics to keep the nontrivial anti-rotating terms and obtain tunable phase factors, resulting in an effective Hamiltonian exactly the same as that of generic linearized cavity optomechanics. This can therefore be exploited to directly prepare macroscopic magnonic quantum states, as detailedly exemplified by the generation of steady and strongly squeezed and entangled states, realize ultra-sensitive magnon-based sensing by engineering backaction-evading interaction of magnons and photons, and develop spintronics-related quantum information processing devices.