Macroscopic Optomechanics from Displaced Single-Photon Entanglement
- Author(s)
- Pavel Sekatski, Markus Aspelmeyer, Nicolas Sangouard
- Abstract
Displaced single-photon entanglement is a simple form of optical entanglement, obtained by sending a photon on a beam splitter and subsequently applying a displacement operation. We show that it can generate, through a momentum transfer in the pulsed regime, an optomechanical entangled state involving macroscopically distinct mechanical components, even if the optomechanical system operates in the single-photon weak coupling regime. We discuss the experimental feasibility of this approach and show that it might open up a way for testing unconventional decoherence models.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Université de Genève, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume
- 112
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.080502
- Publication date
- 02-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics, 103026 Quantum optics, 103025 Quantum mechanics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/macroscopic-optomechanics-from-displaced-singlephoton-entanglement(fdcaec09-8258-464a-95fc-6f0983db197b).html