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Modern optomechanical systems employ increasingly sophisticated quantum-mechanical states of light to probe and manipulate mechanical motion. Squeezed states are now used routinely to enhance the sensitivity of gravitational-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Evan D. Hall , Kevin Kuns

We show that a two-level atom resonantly coupled to one of the modes of a cavity field can be used as a sensitive tool to measure the proper acceleration of a combined atom-cavity system. To achieve it we investigate the relation between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Kacper Kożdoń , Ian T. Durham , Andrzej Dragan

We review a scheme for performing a back-action evading measurement of one mechanical quadrature in an optomechanical setup. The experimental application of this scheme has been limited by parametric instabilities caused in general by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 Steven K. Steinke , K. C. Schwab , Pierre Meystre

In this manuscript, working with a binary mechanical system, we examine the effect of quantum gravity on the exceptional points of the system. On the one side, we find that the exceedingly weak effect of quantum gravity can be sensed via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Dianzhen Cui , T. Li , Jianning Li , Xuexi Yi

Mechanical motion of photonic devices driven by optical forces provides a profound means of coupling between optical fields. The current focus of these optomechanical effects has been on cavity optomechanics systems in which co-localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Huan Li , Mo Li

In this work, we construct three coupled optical modes systems to obtain effective Hamiltonian mediated by coherent dissipative coupling during adiabatic elimination of large dissipation mode. We investigate the cooperative effect of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 H. Yi , T. Z. Luan , W. Y. Hu , Cheng Shang , Yan-Hui Zhou , Zhi-Cheng Shi , H. Z. Shen

Quantum control of levitated dielectric particles is an emerging subject in quantum optomechanics. A major challenge is to efficiently measure and manipulate the particle's motion at the Heisenberg uncertainty limit. Here we present a…

Combining gravity with quantum mechanics remains one of the biggest challenges of physics. In the past years, experiments with opto-mechanical systems have been proposed that may give indirect clues about the quantum nature of gravity. In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yue Ma , Thomas Guff , Gavin Morley , Igor Pikovski , M. S. Kim

We consider a measurement of the position of a spot painted on the surface of a trapped nano-optomechanical sphere. The measurement extracts information about the position of the spot and in doing so measures a combination of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Jason F. Ralph , Kurt Jacobs , Jonathon Coleman

In this manuscript, we propose a new sensing mechanism to enhance the sensitivity of a quantum system to nonlinearities by homodyning the amplitude quadrature of the cavity field. The system consists of two dissipatively coupled cavity…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Dianzhen Cui , Jianning Li , Fude Li , Zhi-Cheng Shi , X. X. Yi

The 'optical spring' results from dynamical back-action and can be used to improve the sensitivity of cavity-enhanced gravitational-wave detectors. The effect occurs if an oscillation of the cavity length results in an oscillation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 Mikhail Korobko , Farid Ya. Khalili , Roman Schnabel

We investigate gravity-induced entanglement between the output optical fields of two red-detuned pulsed optomechanical systems with their masses coupled by mutual gravitational interaction. For each individual system, the optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Daisuke Miki , Alfred Li , Yanbei Chen

The properties of gravitational-wave (GW) propagation are modified in alternative theories of gravity and are crucial observables to test gravity at cosmological distance. The propagation speed has already been measured from GW170817 so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Atsushi Nishizawa , Shun Arai

Fundamental sensitivity of an optical interferometric gravitational wave detector increases with increase of the optical power which, in turn, limited because of the opto-mechanical parametric instabilities of the interferometer. We propose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrey B. Matsko , Mikhail V. Poplavskiy , Hiroaki Yamamoto , Sergey P. Vyatchanin

Non-reciprocal devices, which allow the non-reciprocal signal routing, serve as the fundamental elements in photonic and microwave circuits and are crucial in both classical and quantum information processing. The radiation-pressure-induced…

We demonstrate nonreciprocal control of the speed of light by sending a microwave pulse through a cavity magnonics device. In contrast to reciprocal group velocity controlled by conventional electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jiguang Yao , Chenyang Lu , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , Greg E. Bridges , C. -M. Hu

We demonstrate the actuation of a double beam opto-mechanical cavity with a sinusoidally varying optical input power. We observe the driven mechanical motion with only 200 nW coupled to the optical cavity mode. We also investigate the pump…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yiyang Gong , Armand Rundquist , Arka Majumdar , Jelena Vuckovic

The Newtonian constant of gravitation $G$ historically has the largest relative uncertainty over all other fundamental constants with some discrepancies in values between different measurements. We propose a new scheme to measure $G$ by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 Akio Kawasaki

An interleaved, chirped electro-optic dual comb system is demonstrated for rapid, high dynamic range measurements of cavity optomechanical sensors. This approach allows for the cavity displacements to be interrogated at measurement times as…

The noncommutative spectral action extends our familiar notion of commutative spaces, using the data encoded in a spectral triple on an almost commutative space. Varying a rather simple action, one can derive all of the standard model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 William Nelson , Joseph Ochoa , Mairi Sakellariadou