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We present a simple classical analysis of light interacting with a Fabry-Perot cavity consisting of a fixed (dielectric) front mirror and a vibrating rear mirror. In the adiabatic approximation, the returning light exhibits sideband…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-02 Masud Mansuripur

We study the effect of finite size and misalignment on a fundamental optomechanical setup: a Fabry-P\'erot cavity with one fixed and one moveable mirror. We describe in detail light confinement under these real world imperfections and…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-17 P. Grünwald , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

We study the optomechanical behaviour of a driven Fabry-P\'erot cavity containing two vibrating dielectric membranes. We characterize the cavity-mode frequency shift as a function of the two-membrane positions, and report a $\sim 2.47$ gain…

An open question in experimental physics is the characterization of gravitational effects in quantum regimes. We propose an experimental set-up that uses well-tested techniques in cavity optomechanics to observe the effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Abdulrahim Al Balushi , Wan Cong , Robert B. Mann

We analyze a cavity optomechanical setup, in which position of an oscillator modulates optical loss. We show that in such setup quantum limited position measurements can be performed if the external cavity coupling rate matches the optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 A. K. Tagantsev , S. A. Fedorov

We consider an oscillating micromirror replacing one of the two fixed mirrors of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In this ideal optical set-up the quantum oscillator is subjected to the radiation pressure interaction of travelling light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Alberto Barchielli , Matteo Gregoratti

We investigate the question whether Michelson type interferometry is possible if the role of the beam splitter is played by a spontaneous process. This question arises from an inspection of trajectories of atoms bouncing inelastically from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Cornelussen , R. J. C. Spreeuw , H. B. van Linden van den Heuvell

The emergence of quantum mechanics and general relativity has transformed our understanding of the natural world significantly. However, integrating these two theories presents immense challenges, and their interplay remains untested.…

The Michelson interferometer is a cornerstone of experimental physics. Its applications range from providing first impressions of wave interference in educational settings to probing spacetime at minuscule precision scales. Interferometer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-09 Lee McCuller

We consider how a single photon can probe the quantum nature of a moving mirror in the context of quantum optomechanics. In particular, we demonstrate how the single-photon spectrum reveals resonances that depend on how many phonons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Imran M. Mirza , S. J. van Enk

We investigated the opto-mechanical properties of a Fabry-Perot cavity with a mirror mounted on a spring. Such a structure allows the cavity length to change elastically under the effect of light induced forces. This opto-mechanical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Constanze Metzger , Ivan Favero , Alexander Ortlieb , Khaled Karrai

We theoretically describe the stationary regime and coherent dynamics of a capacitively shunted transmon-type qubit which is placed in front of a mirror. The considered qubit is irradiated by two signals: pump (dressing) and probe. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 M. P. Liul

High-finesse, open-geometry microcavities have recently emerged as a versatile tool for enhancing interactions between photons and material systems, with a range of applications in quantum optics and quantum information science. However,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-06-16 Yannik Fontana , Rigel Zifkin , Erika Janitz , Cesar Daniel Rodriguez Rosenblueth , Lilian Childress

We present exact analytical solutions to study the coherent interaction between a single photon and the mechanical motion of a membrane in quadratic optomechanics. We consider single-photon emission and scattering when the photon is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Jie-Qiao Liao , Franco Nori

Optomechanical systems are a promising candidate for the implementation of quantum interfaces for storing and redistributing quantum information. Here we focus on the case of a high-finesse optical cavity with a thin vibrating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Karuza , C. Biancofiore , M. Galassi , R. Natali , G. Di Giuseppe , P. Tombesi , D. Vitali

We study photon creation in a cavity with two perfectly conducting moving mirrors. We derive the dynamic equations of the modes and study different situations concerning various movements of the walls, such as translational or breathing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Paula I. Villar , Alejandro Soba , Fernando C. Lombardo

According to quantum mechanics, if we keep observing a continuous variable we generally disturb its evolution. For a class of observables, however, it is possible to implement a so-called quantum nondemolition measurement: by confining the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , L. Marconi , F. Marino , G. Pandraud , G. A. Prodi , P. M. Sarro , E. Serra , F. Marin

We investigate how the temporal coherence interference properties of light in a Michelson-Morley interferometer (MMI), using only a single-photon detector, can be understood in a quantum-optics framework in a straightforward and pedagogical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 O. Langangen , B. -S. Skagerstam , A. Vaskinn

We use a microscopic model, the Mirror-Oscillator-Field (MOF) model proposed by Galley, Behunin and Hu [Phys. Rev. A 87, 043832 (2013)], to describe the quantum entanglement between a mirror's center of mass (CoM) motion and a field. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Kanupriya Sinha , Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We consider a cavity with a vibrating end mirror and coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate. The cavity field mediates the interplay between mirror and collective oscillations of the atomic density. We study the implications of this dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 M. Paternostro , G. De Chiara , G. M. Palma