Macroscopic tunneling of a membrane in an optomechanical double-well potential
Quantum Physics
2012-06-12 v1
Abstract
The macroscopic tunneling of an optomechanical membrane is considered. A cavity mode which couples quadratically to the membranes position can create highly tunable adiabatic double-well potentials, which together with the high Q-factors of such membranes render the observation of macroscopic tunneling possible. A suitable, pulsed measurement scheme using a linearly coupled mode of the cavity for the verification of the effect is studied.
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@article{arxiv.1202.6618,
title = {Macroscopic tunneling of a membrane in an optomechanical double-well potential},
author = {L. F. Buchmann and L. Zhang and A. Chiruvelli and P. Meystre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.6618},
year = {2012}
}
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5 pages, 5 figures