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In a hybrid atom-optomechanical system, the optical coupling of a mechanical mode of a nanomembrane in an optical cavity with a distant interacting atom gas permits highly non-classical quantum many-body states. We show that the mechanical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-12 Niklas Mann , Michael Thorwart

Multimode squeezed light is enticing for several applications, from squeezed frequency combs for spectroscopy to signal multiplexing in optical computing. To generate squeezing in multiple frequency modes, optical parametric oscillators…

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

Cavity optomechanics offers powerful methods for controlling optical fields and mechanical motion. A number of proposals have predicted that this control can be extended considerably in devices where multiple cavity modes couple to each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Lee , M. Underwood , D. Mason , A. B. Shkarin , S. W. Hoch , J. G. E. Harris

Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the development of low-dissipation nanomechanical devices, and the…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-23 James Millen , Tania S. Monteiro , Robert Pettit , A. Nick Vamivakas

We investigate the reduction of the electromagnetic field fluctuations in resonance fluorescence from a single emitter coupled to an optical nanostructure. We find that such hybrid system can lead to the creation of squeezed states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Diego Martín Cano , Harald R. Haakh , Karim Murr , Mario Agio

Quadrature squeezing of light is investigated in a hybrid atom-optomechanical system comprising a cloud of two-level atoms and a movable mirror mediated by a single-mode cavity field. When the system is at high temperatures with quadrature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yanqiang Guo , Xiaomin Guo , Pu Li , Heng Shen , Jing Zhang , Tiancai Zhang

We present the first demonstration of all-optical squeezing in an on-chip monolithically integrated CMOS-compatible platform. Our device consists of a low loss silicon nitride microring optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with a gigahertz…

Entanglement and quantum squeezing have wide applications in quantum technologies due to their non-classical characteristics. Here we study entanglement and quantum squeezing in an open spin-optomechanical system, in which a Rabi model (a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Zhucheng Zhang , Xiaoguang Wang

The use of levitated nanospheres represents a new paradigm for the optomechanical cooling of a small mechanical oscillator, with the prospect of realising quantum oscillators with unprecedentedly high quality factors. We investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 T. S. Monteiro , J. Millen , G. A. T. Pender , Florian Marquardt , D. Chang , P. F. Barker

We study the physical properties of double-cavity optomechanical system in which the mechanical resonator interacts with one of the coupled cavities and another cavity is used as an auxiliary cavity. The model can be expected to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dong-Yang Wang , Cheng-Hua Bai , Hong-Fu Wang , Ai-Dong Zhu , Shou Zhang

We consider an optomechanical cavity that is driven stroboscopically by a train of short pulses. By suitably choosing the inter-pulse spacing we show that ground-state cooling and mechanical squeezing can be achieved, even in the presence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 Matteo Brunelli , Daniel Malz , Albert Schliesser , Andreas Nunnenkamp

We theoretically show that laser recoil heating in free-space levitated optomechanics can be arbitrarily suppressed by shining squeezed light onto an optically trapped nanoparticle. The presence of squeezing modifies the quantum…

We report three-dimensional cooling of a levitated nanoparticle inside an optical cavity. The cooling mechanism is provided by cavity-enhanced coherent scattering off an optical tweezer. The observed 3D dynamics and cooling rates are as…

Cavity optomechanics is a tool to study the interaction between light and micromechanical motion. Here we observe near-quantum limited optomechanical physics in a truly macroscopic oscillator. As the mechanical system, we use a mm-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 J. T. Santos , J. Li , J. Ilves , C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , M. A. Sillanpaa

Broadband multidimensional variational measurement allows to overcome Standard Quantum Limit (SQL) of a classical mechanical force detection, resulting from quantum back action, which perturbs evolution of a mechanical oscillator. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Aleksandr A. Movsisian , Sergey P. Vyatchanin

One of the noise sources that currently limits gravitational wave (GW) detectors comes from the quantum nature of the light causing uncertain amplitude and phase. Phase uncertainty limits the precision of an interferometric measurement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Nancy Aggarwal

We present the observation of optical fields carrying squeezed vacuum states at sideband frequencies from 10Hz to above 35MHz. The field was generated with type-I optical parametric oscillation below threshold at 1064nm. A coherent,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Chelkowski , Henning Vahlbruch , Karsten Danzmann , Roman Schnabel

We propose a scheme of an optomechanical system that optimizes entanglement in nanomechanical resonators through quantum state transfer of intracavity squeezing and squeezed reservoir field sources assisted by radiation pressure. The system…

A growing number of experimental set-ups in cavity optomechanics exploit periodically driven fields. However, such set-ups are not amenable to analysis using simple, yet powerful, closed-form expressions of linearized optomechanics, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 E. B. Aranas , M. Javed Akram , Daniel Malz , T. S. Monteiro