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arXiv:0810.4206 · Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Triple coupling and parameter resonance in quantum optomechanics with a single atom

Yue Chang, Hou Ian, C. P. Sun

Published Oct 14, 2009• 23 citations
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Abstract

We study the energy level structure and quantum dynamics for a cavity optomechanical system assisted by a single atom. It is found that a triple coupling involving a photon, a phonon and an atom cannot be described only by the quasi-orbital angular momentum at frequency resonance, there also exists the phenomenon of parameter resonance, namely, when the system parameters are matched in some way, the evolution of the end mirror of the cavity is conditioned by the dressed states of the photon–atom subsystem. The quantum decoherence due to this conditional dynamics is studied in detail. In the quasi-classical limit of very large angular momentum, this system will behave like a standard cavity-QED system described by the Jaynes–Cummings (J–C) model when the angular momentum operators are transformed to bosonic operators of a single mode. We test this observation with an experimentally accessible parameter.

DOI
10.1088/0953-4075/42/21/215502

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Abstract Single atoms coupled to a cavity offer unique opportunities as quantum optomechanical devices because of their small mass and strong interaction with light. A particular regime of interest in optomechanics is that of ‘single-photon strong coupling’, where motional displacements on the order of the zero-point uncertainty are sufficient to shift the cavity resonance frequency by more than its linewidth. In many cavity QED platforms, however, this is unfeasible due to the large cavity linewidth. Here, we propose an alternative route in such systems, which instead relies on the coupling of atomic motion to the much narrower cavity-dressed atomic resonance frequency. We discuss and optimize the conditions in which the scattering properties of single photons from the atom-cavity system become highly entangled with the atomic motional wave function. We also analyze the prominent observable features of this optomechanical strong coupling, which include a per-photon motional heating that is significantly larger than the single-photon recoil energy, as well as mechanically-induced oscillations in time of the second-order correlation function of the emitted light. This physics should be realizable in current experimental setups, such as trapped atoms coupled to photonic crystal cavities, and more broadly opens the door to realizing qualitatively different phenomena beyond what has been observed in optomechanical systems thus far.
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Cavity optomechanics represents a flexible platform for the implementation of quantum technologies, useful in particular for the realization of quantum interfaces, quantum sensors and quantum information processing. However, the dispersive, radiation-pressure interaction between the mechanical and the electromagnetic modes is typically very weak, harnessing up to now the demonstration of interesting nonlinear dynamics and quantum control at the single photon level. It has already been shown both theoretically and experimentally that if the interaction is mediated by a Josephson circuit, one can have an effective dynamics corresponding to a huge enhancement of the single-photon optomechanical coupling. Here we analyze in detail this phenomenon in the general case when the cavity mode and the mechanical mode interact via an off-resonant qubit. Using a Schrieffer-Wolff approximation treatment, we determine the regime where this tripartite hybrid system behaves as an effective cavity optomechanical system in the strong coupling regime.
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