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Quantum optomechanical system serves as an interface for coupling between photons and phonons due to mechanical oscillations. We used the Heisenberg-Langevin approach under Markovian white noise approximation to study a quadratically…

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Precision sensing and manipulation of milligram-scale mechanical oscillators has attracted growing interest in the fields of table-top explorations of gravity and tests of quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales. Torsional oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Sofia Agafonova , Umang Mishra , Fritz Diorico , Onur Hosten

The optomechanical force sensor in non-Markovian environment for a mechanical oscillator is presented. By performing homodyne detection we obtain an generally expression for the output signal. It is shown that the weak force detection is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Wen-Zhao Zhang , Yan Han , Biao Xiong , Ling Zhou

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…

We investigate a scheme to enhance the sensitivity in detecting weak variations in a parameter of an optoelectromechanical system by detecting the system response at radio frequencies. We consider a setup, where either one or two mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Najmeh Eshaqi-Sani , Stefano Zippilli , David Vitali

The rigorous resource framework of quantum coherence has been set up recently and excited a wide variety of interests. Here we show that a quantum cavity optomechanical system, as an emerging platform, can behave with a certain value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Qiang Zheng , Jianwei Xu , Yao Yao , Yong Li

An increasing number of studies are moving towards the combination of quantum mechanics and gravity, where studying gravity from a very small source mass is a viable starting point. Preparing for such experiments, investigations of weak…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Joe Depellette , Ewa Rej , Richa Cutting , Mika A. Sillanpää

We show that a cooling scheme and an appropriate quantum nonstationary strategy can be used to improve the signal to noise ratio for the optomechanical detection of weak impulsive forces.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Vitali , Stefano Mancini , Paolo Tombesi

Strong quantum nonlinearity gives rise to many interesting quantum effects and has wide applications in quantum physics. Herewe investigate the quantum nonlinear effect of an optomechanical system (OMS) consisting of both linear and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Gui-Lei Zhu , Xin-You Lü , Liang-Liang Wan , Tai-Shuang Yin , Qian Bin , Ying Wu

We demonstrate sub-femtometer displacement-sensing results achieved with a compact optical resonator-based laser interferometry technique called heterodyne cavity-tracking, intended for local displacement or inertial sensing with ultra-high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-06 Shreevathsa Chalathadka Subrahmanya , Jonathan Joseph Carter , Oliver Gerberding

Optically levitated macroscopic objects are a powerful tool in the field of force sensing, owing to high sensitivity, absolute force calibration, environmental isolation and the advanced degree of control over their dynamics that have been…

Single atoms coupled to a cavity offer unique opportunities as quantum optomechanical devices because of their small mass and strong interaction with light. A particular regime of interest in optomechanics is that of "single-photon strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Javier Argüello-Luengo , Darrick E. Chang

We present an approach for exponentially enhancing the single-photon coupling strength in an optomechanical system using only additional linear resources. It allows one to reach the quantum nonlinear regime of optomechanics, where nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Marc-Antoine Lemonde , Nicolas Didier , Aashish A. Clerk

Using light as a probe to detect a mechanical motion is one of the most successful experimental approaches in physics. The history of mechanical sensing based on the reflection, refraction and scattering of light dates back to the 16th…

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We review the emerging field of optomechanics, where the radiation pressure of light circulating inside an optical cavity is employed to cool, manipulate and read out micro- and nanomechanical oscillators. These systems display a rich…

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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…

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Exploring gravitational interactions between objects with small masses has become increasingly timely. Concurrently, oscillators with masses ranging between milligrams and grams in cavity optomechanical systems sparked interest for probing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Ziqian Tang , Wenlong Li , Huanying Sun , Xiaoxia Cai , Tiefu Li , Yulong Liu

In precision force sensing of multi-mechanical mode optomechanical systems, coherent interference can decouple certain degenerate vibrational modes from the cavity field, leading to incomplete information regarding the measured signal. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Ding-hui Xu , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu

Experiments aimed at searching for variations in the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ are based on spectroscopy of transitions in microscopic bound systems, such as atoms and ions, or resonances in optical cavities. The sensitivities of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Beata Zjawin , Marcin Bober , Roman Ciuryło , Daniel Lisak , Michał Zawada , Piotr Wcisło

Many well theoretically motivated models of ultralight dark matter are expected to give rise to feeble oscillatory forces on macroscopic objects. Optically trapped sensors have high force sensitivities but have remained relatively…

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