Cavity optomechanics

M Aspelmeyer, TJ Kippenberg, F Marquardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between
electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review …

Optomechanics (a brief review)

F Marquardt, SM Girvin - arxiv preprint arxiv:0905.0566, 2009 - arxiv.org
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 …

Noise-tolerant optomechanical entanglement via synthetic magnetism

DG Lai, JQ Liao, A Miranowicz, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Entanglement of light and multiple vibrations is a key resource for multichannel quantum
information processing and memory. However, entanglement generation is generally …

Dispersive optomechanics: a membrane inside a cavity

AM Jayich, JC Sankey, BM Zwickl, C Yang… - New Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of theoretical and experimental studies of dispersively coupled
(or'membrane in the middle') optomechanical systems. We calculate the linear optical …

Macroscopic quantum mechanics: theory and experimental concepts of optomechanics

Y Chen - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid experimental progress has recently allowed the use of light to prepare macroscopic
mechanical objects into nearly pure quantum states. This research field of quantum …

Strong coupling and long-range collective interactions in optomechanical arrays

A Xuereb, C Genes, A Dantan - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We investigate the collective optomechanics of an ensemble of scatterers inside a Fabry-
Pérot resonator and identify an optimized configuration where the ensemble is transmissive …

Steady state entanglement in the mechanical vibrations of two dielectric membranes

MJ Hartmann, MB Plenio - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
We consider two dielectric membranes suspended inside a Fabry-Perot cavity, which are
cooled to a steady state via a drive by suitable classical lasers. We show that the vibrations …

Optomechanical creation of magnetic fields for photons on a lattice

M Schmidt, S Kessler, V Peano, O Painter, F Marquardt - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Recently, there has been growing interest in the creation of artificial magnetic fields for
uncharged particles, such as cold atoms or photons. These efforts are partly motivated by …

Optomechanical circuits for nanomechanical continuous variable quantum state processing

M Schmidt, M Ludwig, F Marquardt - New Journal of Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose and analyze a nanomechanical architecture where light is used to perform
linear quantum operations on a set of many vibrational modes. Suitable amplitude …

Self-organized synchronization of phonon lasers

J Sheng, X Wei, C Yang, H Wu - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Self-organized synchronization is a ubiquitous collective phenomenon, in which each unit
adjusts their rhythms to achieve synchrony through mutual interactions. The optomechanical …