Room-temperature steady-state optomechanical entanglement on a chip.

A potential experimental system, based on high-stress stoichiometric silicon nitride (Si3N4), is proposed to generate steady-state optomechanical entanglement at room temperature. In the proposed structure, a nanostring interacts dispersively and reactively with a microdisk cavity via the evanescent field. We study the role of both dispersive and reactive couplings in generating optomechanical entanglement, and show that the roomtemperature entanglement can be effectively obtained through the dispersive couplings under the reasonable experimental parameters. In particular, in the limits of high temperature (T) and high mechanical quality factor (Qm), we find that the logarithmic entanglement depends only on the ratio T/Qm. This indicates that improvements of the material quantity and structure design may lead to more efficient generation of stationary high-temperature entanglement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]