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In this paper we study an optomechnical system enclosed by an optical cavity with one mirror attached to a spring as a closed quantum system. We provide a different angle of studying the phenomenons related to the dynamical Casimir effect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Yu-Song Cao , Yanxia Liu

Experiments in the field of optomechanics do not yet fully exploit the photon polarization degree of freedom. Here experimental results for an optomechanical interaction in a polarization nondegenerate system are presented and schemes are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 F. M. Buters , M. J. Weaver , H. J. Eerkens , K. Heeck , S. de Man , D. Bouwmeester

We study in detail the dynamics of a non-stationary system composed of a Quantum Well confined in an optomechanical cavity. This system is investigated with classical and quantized motion of the cavity movable mirror. In both the cases, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Sonam Mahajan , Neha Aggarwal , Tarun Kumar , Aranya B Bhattacherjee , ManMohan

Exploring the dynamics of an optically levitated dielectric micro- and nanoparticle is an exciting new subject in quantum science. Recent years have witnessed rapid advancements in attaining quantum-limited optical detection and control of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Seyed Khalil Alavi , Zijie Sheng , Haneul Lee , Hansuek Lee , Sungkun Hong

A pertinent question in cavity optomechanics is whether reaching the regime of large single-photon cooperativity, where the single-photon coupling rate exceeds the geometric mean of the cavity and mechanical decay rates, can enable any new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Kjetil Borkje

We study the nonreciprocal transmission of a single-photon in a cavity optomechanical system, in which the cavity supports a clockwise and a counter-clockwise circulating optical modes, the mechanical resonator (MR) is excited by a weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jun-Hao Liu , Ya-Fei Yu , Zhi-Ming Zhang

We theoretically study an optomechanical system, which consists of a two-sided cavity and a mechanical membrane that is placed outside of it. The membrane is positioned close to one of its mirrors, and the cavity is coupled to the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 A. K. Tagantsev , E. S. Polzik

We combine the dynamics of open quantum systems with interferometry and interference introducing the concept of open system interferometer. By considering a single photon in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where the polarization (open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 O. Siltanen , T. Kuusela , J. Piilo

We have explored the nonlinear dynamics of an optomechanical system consisting of an illuminated Fabry-Perot cavity, one of whose end-mirrors is attached to a vibrating cantilever. Such a system can experience negative light-induced damping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Max Ludwig , Clemens Neuenhahn , Constanze Metzger , Alexander Ortlieb , Ivan Favero , Khaled Karrai , Florian Marquardt

We perform a quantum mechanical analysis of the pendular cavity, using the positive-P representation, showing that the quantum state of the moving mirror, a macroscopic object, has noticeable effects on the dynamics. This system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. K. Olsen , A. B. Melo , K. Dechoum , A. Z. Khoury

Recent experimental progress in table-top experiments or gravitational-wave interferometers has enlightened the unique displacement sensitivity offered by optical interferometry. As the mirrors move in response to radiation pressure, higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Arcizet , P. -F. Cohadon , T. Briant , M. Pinard , A. Heidmann

The coupling of mechanical oscillators with light has seen a recent surge of interest, as recent reviews report.[1, 2] This coupling is enhanced when confining light in an optical cavity where the mechanical oscillator is integrated as…

We describe and demonstrate a method to control a detuned movable-mirror Fabry-Perot cavity using radiation pressure in the presence of a strong optical spring. At frequencies below the optical spring resonance, self-locking of the cavity…

In many experiments isolated atoms and ions have been inserted into high-finesse optical resonators for the study of fundamental quantum optics and quantum information. Here, we introduce another application of such a system, as the…

The interaction between a high-frequency dilational mode of a thin dielectric film and an optical cavity field is studied theoretically in the membrane-in-the-middle setup. A derivation from first principles leads to a multi-mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 K. Borkje , S. M. Girvin

An optomechanical microcavity can considerably enhance the interaction between light and mechanical motion by confining light to a sub-wavelength volume. However, this comes at the cost of an increased optical loss rate. Therefore,…

In a canonical optomechanical system, mechanical vibrations are dynamically encoded on an optical probe field which reciprocally exerts a backaction force. Due to the weak single photon coupling strength achieved with macroscopic…

A quantum system composed of a cavity radiation field interacting with a movable mirror is considered and quantum statistical properties of the field are studied. Such a system can serve in principle as an idealized meter for detection of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Brif , A. Mann

We present a general framework for cavity quantum electrodynamics with strongly frequency-dependent mirrors. The method is applicable to a variety of reflectors exhibiting sharp internal resonances as can be realized, for example, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ondřej Černotík , Aurélien Dantan , Claudiu Genes

We present a perturbative closed-time-path (in-in) formulation of an optomechanical system in which a quantum field interacts with a moving mirror via radiation pressure. We derive the effective action governing the dynamics of the moving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Salvatore Butera