Novel hermetically sealed device to realize unconventional phonon blockade at near-micron dimensions and milliKelvin temperatures

This paper proposes a novel design for a hermetically sealable device, consisting of charged linear and nonlinear membranes driven in the gigahertz range in vacuum setting, as a source of antibunched single phonons. Constraints for effecting phonon antibunching are found using the stationary Liouville-von Neumann master equation. Using analytical calculations and material and geometry optimization, we show that sizes of the proposed system can be upscaled to the near-micrometer range in a trade-off with the system operating temperature. The results are significant to realize quantum phononics, which has much promise as a modality for sensing and computing applications.