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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

We extend our previous work on the functional approach to the dynamical Casimir effect, to compute dissipative effects due to the relative motion of two flat, parallel, imperfect mirrors in vacuum. The interaction between the internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Cesar D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We show that an atom can be coupled to a mechanical oscillator via quantum vacuum fluctuations of a cavity field enabling energy transfer processes between them. In a hybrid quantum system consisting of a cavity resonator with a movable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Bo Wang , Jia-Ming Hu , Vincenzo Macrì , Ze-Liang Xiang , Franco Nori

Cavity opto-mechanics enabled radiation-pressure coupling between optical and mechanical modes of a micro-mechanical resonator gives rise to dynamical backaction, enabling amplification and cooling of mechanical motion. Due to a combination…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-19 Siddharth Tallur , Sunil A. Bhave

We analyze the behaviour of a coherent field driving a single mode optical cavity with one perfectly reflecting moving mirror and a partially reflecting fixed mirror, and show that this system's output exhibits optical bistability due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , H. M. Moya-Cessa

We provide a full quantum description of the optomechanical system formed by a Fabry-Perot cavity with a movable micro-mechanical mirror whose center-of-mass and internal elastic modes are coupled to the driven cavity mode by both radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Mehdi Abdi , Ali Reza Bahrampour , David Vitali

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 present a new optomechanical device where the motion of a micromechanical membrane couples to a microwave resonance of a three-dimensional superconducting cavity. With this architecture, we realize ultrastrong parametric coupling, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 G. A. Peterson , S. Kotler , F. Lecocq , K. Cicak , X. Y. Jin , R. W. Simmonds , J. Aumentado , J. D. Teufel

We describe an optomechanical device consisting of a fiber-based optical cavity containing a silicon nitiride membrane. In comparison with typical free-space cavities, the fiber-cavity's small mode size (10 {\mu}m waist, 80 {\mu}m length)…

We study an optomechanical system consisting of an optical cavity and movable mirror coupled through dispersive linear optomechanical coupling (LOC) and quadratic optomechanical coupling(QOC). We work in the resolved side band limit with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-03 U. Satya Sainadh , M. Anil Kumar

Optomechanics experiments are rapidly approaching the regime where the radiation pressure of a single photon displaces the mechanical oscillator by more than its zero-point uncertainty. We show that in this limit the power spectrum has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 A. Nunnenkamp , K. Borkje , S. M. Girvin

Quantum effects of radiation pressure are expected to limit the sensitivity of second-generation gravitational-wave interferometers. Though ubiquitous, such effects are so weak that they haven't been experimentally demonstrated yet. Using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 P. Verlot , A. Tavernarakis , T. Briant , P. -F. Cohadon , A. Heidmann

The lateral Casimir force between a sinusoidally corrugated gold coated plate and large sphere was measured for surface separations between 0.2 $\mu$m to 0.3 $\mu$m using an atomic force microscope. The measured force shows the required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Chen , U. Mohideen , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

In this work we investigate an optomechanical system consisting of two cavities coupled to the same mechanical resonator. We consider each cavity being weakly pumped as well as a small tunneling rate between the cavities. In such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Figueiredo Roque , A. Vidiella-Barranco

We present a new model of two electrically coupled optomechanical cavities. This model is based on the recently presented [Physical Review A \textbf{103} (2021) 043509]. We found that coupling two optomechanical cavities via Coulomb force…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Jan Wójcik , Grzegorz Chimczak

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 study a hybrid semiconductor-optomechanical system, which consists of a cavity with an oscillating mirror made by semiconducting materials or with a semiconducting membrane inside. The cavity photons and the excitons in the oscillating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Sai-Nan Huai , Yu-Long Liu , Yunbo Zhang , Yu-xi Liu

The Casimir force, which results from the confinement of the quantum mechanical zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic fields, has received significant attention in recent years for its effect on micro- and nano-scale mechanical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. N. Munday , Federico Capasso

Light pressure effect has been discovered long ago and has been used as an optical method to manipulate microand nanoparticles. It is usually considered as a nonresonant effect determined by the transfer of the momentum of light. However,…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-03 Yangcheng Li , Alexey V. Maslov , Ana Jofre , Vasily N. Astratov

A cavity optomechanical magnetometer is demonstrated where the magnetic field induced expansion of a magnetostrictive material is transduced onto the physical structure of a highly compliant optical microresonator. The resulting motion is…