Achieving fast cooling of motional modes is a prerequisite for leveraging such bosonic quanta for high-speed quantum information processing. In this Letter, we address the aspect of reducing the time limit for cooling, below that constrained by the conventional sideband cooling techniques, and propose a scheme to apply deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to achieve this. In particular, we have numerically demonstrated how the scheme can be used effectively to accelerate the dynamic motional cooling of a macroscopic magnonic sphere, and how it can be uniformly extended to more complex systems, for example, a tripartite opto-magno-mechanical system, to obtain cooling of the motional mode below the time bound of coherent cooling. While conventional sideband cooling methods do not work beyond the well-known rotating wave approximation (RWA) regimes, our proposed DRL scheme can be applied uniformly to regimes operating within and beyond the RWA, and thus, this offers a new and complete toolkit for rapid control and generation of macroscopic quantum states for application in quantum technologies.

• Received 28 January 2022
• Accepted 1 November 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L042038

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