Macroscopic Tunneling of a Membrane in an Optomechanical Double-Well Potential

被引：65

作者：

Buchmann, L. F. ^{[1
,2
]}

Zhang, L. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Chiruvelli, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Meystre, P. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, Coll Opt Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] Univ Arizona, Inst B2, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[3] Shaanxi Normal Univ, Sch Phys & Informat Technol, Xian 710061, Peoples R China

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2012年 / 108卷 / 21期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

QUANTUM; CAVITY;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.210403

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The macroscopic tunneling of an optomechanical membrane is considered. A cavity mode which couples quadratically to the membranes position can create highly tunable adiabatic double-well potentials, which together with the high Q factors of such membranes render the observation of macroscopic tunneling possible. A suitable, pulsed measurement scheme using a linearly coupled mode of the cavity for the verification of the effect is studied.

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