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Experiments during the past two years have shown strong resonant photon-magnon coupling in microwave cavities, while coupling in the optical regime was demonstrated very recently for the first time. Unlike with microwaves, the coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Hong X. Tang , Florian Marquardt

The dissipative properties of an optical cavity can be effectively controlled by placing it in a feedback loop where the light at the cavity output is detected and the corresponding signal is used to modulate the amplitude of a laser field…

In optomechanics, electromagnetic fields are harnessed to control a single mode of a mechanically compliant system, while other mechanical degrees of freedom remain unaffected due to the modes' mutual orthogonality and high quality factor.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Martin Frimmer , Jan Gieseler , Lukas Novotny

In this work we combine the large per-photon optical gradient force with the sensitive feedback of a high quality factor whispering-gallery microcavity. The cavity geometry, consisting of a pair of silica disks separated by a nanoscale gap,…

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

Optomechanical systems couple an electromagnetic cavity to a mechanical resonator which is typically formed from a solid object. The range of phenomena accessible to these systems depends on the properties of the mechanical resonator and on…

A cavity opto-electromechanical system is reported which combines the ultrasensitive transduction of cavity optomechanical systems with the electrical actuation of nanoelectromechanical systems. Ultrasensitive mechanical transduction is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Terry G. McRae , Kwan H. Lee , Glen I. Harris , Joachim Knittel , Warwick P. Bowen

We show how stationary entanglement between an optical cavity field mode and a macroscopic vibrating mirror can be generated by means of radiation pressure. We also show how the generated optomechanical entanglement can be quantified and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Vitali , S. Gigan , A. Ferreira , H. R. Boehm , P. Tombesi , A. Guerreiro , V. Vedral , A. Zeilinger , M. Aspelmeyer

Cavity-optomechanics enables photon-phonon interaction and correlations by harnessing the radiation-pressure force. Here, we realize a ``cavity-in-a-membrane'' optomechanical architecture which allows detection of the motion of…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-19 Mengdi Zhao , Kejie Fang

Using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we derive an effective Hamiltonian for an optomechanical system that leads to a nonlinear Kerr effect in the system's vacuum. The oscillating mirror at one edge of the optomechanical system induces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-04 Z. R. Gong , H. Ian , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

We investigate the dynamics of a mechanical resonator in which is embedded an ensemble of two-level systems interacting with an optical cavity field. We show that this hybrid approach to optomechanics allows for enhanced effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aurelien Dantan , Bhagya Nair , Guido Pupillo , Claudiu Genes

Cavity optomechanical systems are one of the leading experimental platforms for controlling mechanical motion in the quantum regime. We exemplify that the control over cavity optomechanical systems greatly increases by coupling the cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Ville Bergholm , Witlef Wieczorek , Thomas Schulte-Herbrueggen , Michael Keyl

We consider the motion of the end mirror of a cavity inside which a two-level atom trapped. The fast vibrating mirror induces nonlinear couplings between the cavity field and the atom. We analyze this optical effect by showing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-11 X. X. Yi , H. Y. Sun , L. C. Wang

We propose a sensing scheme for detecting weak forces that achieves Heisenberg-limited sensitivity without relying on entanglement or other non-classical resources. Our scheme utilizes coherent averaging across a chain of N optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Marta Maria Marchese , Daniel Braun , Stefan Nimmrichter , Dennis Rätzel

Optomagnonic systems, where light couples coherently to collective excitations in magnetically ordered solids, are currently of high interest due to their potential for quantum information processing platforms at the nanoscale. Efforts so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Jasmin Graf , Hannes Pfeifer , Florian Marquardt , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy

In cavity optomechanics, light is used to control mechanical motion. A central goal of the field is achieving single-photon strong coupling, which would enable the creation of quantum superposition states of motion. Reaching this limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Mingyun Yuan , Vibhor Singh , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gary A. Steele

A new scheme of a highly efficient hybrid laser cavity is proposed and experimentally demonstrated utilizing a hot cesium (Cs) vapor cell as an optical gain medium. The laser cavity consists of a macroscopic concave reflecting mirror (>99%…

Cavity optomechanical systems have recently been proposed as detectors for ultralight dark matter, leveraging their ability to cool and probe mechanical oscillators at the quantum limit. Here we present a resonant search for ultralight dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-12 M. Dey Chowdhury , J. P. Manley , C. A. Condos , A. R. Agrawal , D. J. Wilson

Optomechanical cooling of levitated nanoparticles has become an essential topic in modern quantum physics, providing a platform for exploring macroscopic quantum phenomena and high-precision sensing. However, conventional cavity-assisted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Jialin Li , Guangyu Zhang , Zhang-qi Yin

Quantum control of engineered mechanical oscillators can be achieved by coupling the oscillator to an auxiliary degree of freedom, provided that the coherent rate of energy exchange exceeds the decoherence rate of each of the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Verhagen , S. Deléglise , S. Weis , A. Schliesser , T. J. Kippenberg