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We study the optomechanical coupling of a single-layer graphene with a high-Q Fabry-Perot microcavity in the membrane-in-the-middle configuration. In ordinary dissipative coupling systems, mechanical oscillators modulate the loss associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-12 Lin-Da Xiao , Yu-Feng Shen , Yong-Chun Liu , Meng-Yuan Yan , Yun-Feng Xiao

We propose a scheme to prepare a macroscopic mechanical oscillator in a catlike state, close to a coherent state superposition. The mechanical oscillator, coupled by radiation-pressure interaction to a field in an optical cavity, is first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Itay Shomroni , Liu Qiu , Tobias J. Kippenberg

Cavity Optomechanical system is speedily approaching the regime where the radiation pressure of a single photon displaces the moving mirror. In this paper, we consider a cavity optomechanical system where the cavity field is driven by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 M. A. Khan , S. C. Hou , K. Farooq , X. X. Yi

Demonstrating and exploiting the quantum nature of larger, more macroscopic mechanical objects would help us to directly investigate the limitations of quantum-based measurements and quantum information protocols, as well as test long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-16 J. D. Teufel , D. Li , M. S. Allman , K. Cicak , A. J. Sirois , J. D. Whittaker , R. W. Simmonds

We propose to mechanically control photon blockades (PB) in an optomechanical system with driving oscillators. We show that by tuning the mechanical driving parameters we achieve selective single-photon blockade (1PB) or two-photon blockade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Cuilu Zhai , Ran Huang , Baijun Li , Hui Jing , Le-Man Kuang

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…

Emitter dephasing is one of the key issues in the performance of solid-state single photon sources. Among the various sources of dephasing, acoustic phonons play a central role in adding decoherence to the single photon emission. Here, we…

The intracavity power, and hence sensitivity, of optomechanical sensors is commonly limited by parametric instability. Here we characterize the parametric instability induced sensitivity degradation in a micron scale cavity optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Glen I. Harris , Ulrik L. Andersen , Joachim Knittel , Warwick P. Bowen

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

Optomechanical systems show great potential as quantum transducers and information storage devices for use in future hybrid quantum networks and offer novel strategies for quantum state preparation to explore macroscopic quantum phenomena.…

The ability to create, manipulate and detect non-classical states of light has been key for many recent achievements in quantum physics and for developing quantum technologies. Achieving the same level of control over phonons, the quanta of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Amirparsa Zivari , Robert Stockill , Niccolò Fiaschi , Simon Gröblacher

The noise from laser phase fluctuation sets a major technical obstacle to cool the nano-mechanical oscillators to the quantum region. We propose a cooling configuration based on the opto-mechanical coupling with two cavity modes to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-14 Zhang-qi Yin

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate optically tunable nonlinear mechanical damping in a cavity optomechanical system utilizing a partly resolved sideband regime. Optomechanical coupling provides a delayed nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Hideki Arahari , Motoki Asano , Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Hajime Okamoto

We review the field of cavity optomechanics, which explores the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nano- or micromechanical motion. This review covers the basics of optical cavities and mechanical resonators, their mutual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Markus Aspelmeyer , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Florian Marquardt

We propose that the optomechanical systems can be potential platforms to implement the Fr\"{o}hlich condensate of phonons. We consider a one-dimensional array of membranes coupled to the cavity field via a quadratic interaction, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Xu Zheng , Baowen Li

Coupling electromagnetic waves in a cavity and mechanical vibrations via the radiation pressure of the photons [1,2] is a promising platform for investigations of quantum mechanical properties of motion of macroscopic bodies and thereby the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 J. -M. Pirkkalainen , S. U. Cho , F. Massel , J. Tuorila , T. T. Heikkila , P. J. Hakonen , M. A. Sillanpaa

Electromagnetically induced transparency has great theoretical and experimental importance in many physics subjects, such as atomic physics, quantum optics, and more recent cavity optomechanics. Optical delay is the most prominent feature…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Linran Fan , King Y. Fong , Menno Poot , Hong X. Tang

Recent advances in cavity-optomechanics have now made it possible to use light not just as a passive measuring device of mechanical motion, but also to manipulate the motion of mechanical objects down to the level of individual quanta of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Hengjiang Ren , Tirth Shah , Hannes Pfeifer , Christian Brendel , Vittorio Peano , Florian Marquardt , Oskar Painter

High-gain and low-noise signal amplification is a valuable tool in various cryogenic microwave experiments. A microwave optomechanical device, in which a vibrating capacitor modulates the frequency of a microwave cavity, is one technique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Martijn A. Cohen , Daniel Bothner , Yaroslav M. Blanter , Gary A. Steele

The interaction of optical and mechanical modes in nanoscale optomechanical systems has been widely studied for applications ranging from sensing to quantum information science. Here, we develop a platform for cavity optomechanical circuits…