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Optical squeezing of a mechanical oscillator by dispersive interaction
We consider a small partially reflecting vibrating mirror coupled
dispersively to a single optical mode of a high finesse cavity. We show this
arrangement can be used to implement quantum squeezing of the mechanically
oscillating mirror.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Coupling nanomechanical cantilevers to dipolar molecules
We investigate the coupling of a nanomechanical oscillator in the quantum
regime with molecular (electric) dipoles. We find theoretically that the
cantilever can produce single-mode squeezing of the center-of-mass motion of an
isolated trapped molecule and two-mode squeezing of the phonons of an array of
molecules. This work opens up the possibility of manipulating dipolar crystals,
which have been recently proposed as quantum memory, and more generally, is
indicative of the promise of nanoscale cantilevers for the quantum detection
and control of atomic and molecular systems.Comment: 3 figures, 4page
Entanglement of a Laguerre-Gaussian cavity mode with a rotating mirror
It has previously been shown theoretically that the exchange of linear
momentum between the light field in an optical cavity and a vibrating end
mirror can entangle the electromagnetic field with the vibrational motion of
that mirror. In this paper we consider the rotational analog of this situation
and show that radiation torque can similarly entangle a Laguerre-Gaussian
cavity mode with a rotating end mirror. We examine the mirror-field
entanglement as a function of ambient temperature, radiation detuning and
orbital angular momentum carried by the cavity mode.Comment: 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to Phys.Rev.
Trapping and Cooling a mirror to its quantum mechanical ground state
We propose a technique aimed at cooling a harmonically oscillating mirror to
its quantum mechanical ground state starting from room temperature. Our method,
which involves the two-sided irradiation of the vibrating mirror inside an
optical cavity, combines several advantages over the two-mirror arrangements
being used currently. For comparable parameters the three-mirror configuration
provides a stiffer trap for the oscillating mirror. Furthermore it prevents
bistability from limiting the use of higher laser powers for mirror trapping,
and also partially does so for mirror cooling. Lastly, it improves the
isolation of the mirror from classical noise so that its dynamics are perturbed
mostly by the vacuum fluctuations of the optical fields. These improvements are
expected to bring the task of achieving ground state occupation for the mirror
closer to completion.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Multiple membrane cavity optomechanics
We investigate theoretically the extension of cavity optomechanics to
multiple membrane systems. We describe such a system in terms of the coupling
of the collective normal modes of the membrane array to the light fields. We
show these modes can be optically addressed individually and be cooled, trapped
and characterized, e.g. via quantum nondemolition measurements. Analogies
between this system and a linear chain of trapped ions or dipolar molecules
imply the possibility of related applications in the quantum regime.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Classical dynamics of the optomechanical modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring cavity
We consider a cavity optomechanical system consisting of a Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC) interacting with two counterpropagating traveling-wave modes
in an optical ring cavity. In contrast to the more familiar case where the
condensate is driven by the standing-wave field of a high- Fabry-P{\'e}rot
cavity we find that both symmetric and antisymmetric collective density side
modes of the BEC are mechanically excited by the light field. In the
semiclassical, mean-field limit where the light field and the zero-momentum
mode of the condensate are treated classically the system is found to exhibit a
rich multistable behavior, including the appearance of isolated branches of
solutions (isolas). We also present examples of the dynamics of the system as
input parameters such as the frequency of the driving lasers are varied
Optomechanical trapping and cooling of partially transparent mirrors
We consider the radiative trapping and cooling of a partially transmitting
mirror suspended inside an optical cavity, generalizing the case of a perfectly
reflecting mirror previously considered [M. Bhattacharya and P. Meystre, Phys.
Rev. Lett. \textbf{99}, 073601 (2007)]. This configuration was recently used in
an experiment to cool a nanometers-thick membrane [Thompson \textit{et al.},
arXiv:0707.1724v2, 2007]. The self-consistent cavity field modes of this system
depend strongly on the position of the middle mirror, leading to important
qualitative differences in the radiation pressure effects: in one case, the
situation is similar that of a perfectly reflecting middle mirror, with only
minor quantitative modifications. In addition, we also identify a range of
mirror positions for which the radiation-mirror coupling becomes purely
dispersive and the back-action effects that usually lead to cooling are absent,
although the mirror can still be optically trapped. The existence of these two
regimes leads us to propose a bichromatic scheme that optimizes the cooling and
trapping of partially transmissive mirrors.Comment: Submitted to Phys.Rev.
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