Pulsed Quantum Optomechanics
- Author(s)
- Michael Vanner, Igor Pikovski, Garrett Cole, Myungshik Kim, Caslav Brukner, Klemens Hammerer, Gerard Milburn, Markus Aspelmeyer
- Abstract
Studying mechanical resonators via radiation pressure offers a rich avenue for the exploration of quantum mechanical behavior in a macroscopic regime. However, quantum state preparation and especially quantum state reconstruction of mechanical oscillators remains a significant challenge. Here we propose a scheme to realize quantum state tomography, squeezing, and state purification of a mechanical resonator using short optical pulses. The scheme presented allows observation of mechanical quantum features despite preparation from a thermal state and is shown to be experimentally feasible using optical microcavities. Our framework thus provides a promising means to explore the quantum nature of massive mechanical oscillators and can be applied to other systems such as trapped ions.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Imperial College London, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), University of Queensland
- Journal
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
- Volume
- 108
- Pages
- 16182-16187
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0027-8424
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105098108
- Publication date
- 2011
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/pulsed-quantum-optomechanics(612d95e7-bd68-4561-ba43-ed9b92c980e2).html