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A route to observing ponderomotive entanglement with optically trapped mirrors

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The radiation pressure of two detuned laser beams can create a stable trap for a suspended cavity mirror; here it is shown that such a configuration entangles the output light fields via interaction with the mirror. Intra-cavity, the opto-mechanical system can become entangled also. The degree of entanglement is quantified spectrally using the logarithmic negativity. Entanglement survives in the experimentally accessible regime of gram-scale masses subject to thermal noise at room temperature.

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@article{arxiv.0803.4001,
  title  = {A route to observing ponderomotive entanglement with optically trapped mirrors},
  author = {Christopher Wipf and Thomas Corbitt and Yanbei Chen and Nergis Mavalvala},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.4001},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures