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Parametrically modulated optomechanical systems have been recently proposed as a simple and efficient setting for the quantum control of a micromechanical oscillator: relevant possibilities include the generation of squeezing in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Alessandro Farace , Vittorio GIovannetti

Under a strong quantum measurement, the motion of an oscillator is disturbed by the measurement back-action, as required by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. When a mechanical oscillator is continuously monitored via an electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , E. Damskägg , G. S. Paraoanu , F. Massel , M. A. Sillanpää

Quantum circuits -- built from local unitary gates and local measurements -- are a new playground for quantum many-body physics and a tractable setting to explore universal collective phenomena far-from-equilibrium. These models have shed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Matthew P. A. Fisher , Vedika Khemani , Adam Nahum , Sagar Vijay

We theoretically investigate two quantum modes interacting via local couplings to a dissipative field. Our model considers two mechanical modes with distinct frequencies coupled optomechanically to the same cavity mode. The dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 L. F. Buchmann , D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Manipulating the motions of macroscopic objects near their quantum mechanical uncertainties has been desired in diverse fields, including fundamental physics, sensing, and transducers. Despite significant progresses in ground-state cooling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 M. Kamba , N. Hara , K. Aikawa

Introducing a controlled and strong anharmonicity in mechanical systems is a present challenge of nanomechanics. In cavity optomechanics a mechanical oscillator may be made anharmonic by ponderomotively coupling its motion to the light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Jonathan L. Wise , Clement Dutreix , Fabio Pistolesi

We report on collective non-linear dynamics in an optical lattice formed inside a high finesse ring cavity in a so far unexplored regime, where the light shift per photon times the number of trapped atoms exceeds the cavity resonance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Nagorny , Th. Elsaesser , A. Hemmerich

We theoretically describe macroscopic quantum synchronization effects occurring in a network of all-to-all coupled quantum limit-cycle oscillators. The coupling causes a transition to synchronization as indicated by the presence of global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder

Quantum mechanics is characterized by quantum coherence and entanglement. After having discovered how these fundamental concepts govern physical reality, scientists have been devoting intense efforts to harness them to shape future science…

High-order quantum nonlinearity is an important prerequisite for the advanced quantum technology leading to universal quantum processing with large information capacity of continuous variables. Levitated optomechanics, a field where motion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Andrey A. Rakhubovsky , Radim Filip

Rapid advances are being made toward optically cooling a single mode of a micro-mechanical system to its quantum ground state and observing quantum behavior at macroscopic scales. Reaching this regime in room-temperature environments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-30 D. E. Chang , K. -K. Ni , O. Painter , H. J. Kimble

Quantum walks constitute a rich area of quantum information science, where multipartite entanglement plays a central role in the dynamics and scalability of quantum advantage over classical simulators. In this work, we study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Emil K. F. Donkersloot , René Sondenheimer , Jan Sperling

Although quantum metrology allows us to make precision measurement beyond the standard quantum limit, it mostly works on the measurement of only one observable due to Heisenberg uncertainty relation on the measurement precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Jiamin Li , Yuhong Liu , Liang Cui , Nan Huo , Syed M Assad , Xiaoying Li , Z. Y. Ou

Even though the evolution of an isolated quantum system is unitary, the complexity of interacting many-body systems prevents the observation of recurrences of quantum states for all but the smallest systems. For large systems one can not…

Oscillation of macroscopic variables is discovered in a metastable state in the Hamiltonian dynamical system of mean field XY model, the duration of which is divergent with the system size. This long-lasting periodic or quasiperiodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidetoshi Morita , Kunihiko Kaneko

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

In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the collective dynamics in ensembles of globally coupled phase oscillators when higher-order modes dominate the coupling. The spatiotemporal properties of the attractors in various…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-04-19 Can Xu , Hairong Xiang , Jian Gao , Zhigang Zheng

A review of coherent and collective quantum optical effects like superradiance and coherent population trapping in mesoscopic systems is presented. Various new physical realizations of these phenomena are discussed, with a focus on their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tobias Brandes

We study the collective dynamics of noise-driven excitable elements, so-called active rotators. Crucially here, the natural frequencies and the individual coupling strengths are drawn from some joint probability distribution. Combining a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-08-18 Bernard Sonnenschein , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Here we show that quantum states of a mechanical oscillator can be generated in an optomechanical analogue of the micromaser, in absence of any atom-like subsystem, thus exhibiting single-atom masing effects in a system composed solely of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-21 P. D. Nation