Abstract

It is presented a scheme for generating entanglement between a moving mirror and the vibrational degree of freedom of a single trapped ion. The system consists of an interferometer with an optomechanical cavity at one arm and a cavity with a single trapped ion at another arm. Because of the radiation pressure, it is possible to entangle the cavity field with the moving mirror at the optomechanical arm and by tuning the cavity field with the internal levels of the ion, it is possible to generate an entangled state comprising the cavity and the ion arm. The cavity fields may be coupled via a beam splitter, making possible to generate entanglement between the moving mirror and the vibrational state of motion of a single trapped ion.

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