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Cavity optomechanics with a trapped, interacting bose-einstein condensate

Nagy, Dávid, Gergely Szirmai, P. Domokos

Published Jan 1, 2013• 1 citation
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Abstract

The dispersive interaction of a Bose-Einstein condensate with a single mode of a high-finesse optical cavity realizes the radiation pressure coupling Hamiltonian. In this system the role of the mechanical oscillator is played by a single condensate excitation mode that is selected by the cavity mode function. We study the effect of atomic s-wave collisions and show that it merely renormalizes parameters of the usual optomechanical interaction. Moreover, we show that even in the case of strong harmonic confinement – which invalidates the use of Bloch states – a single excitation mode of the Bose-Einstein condensate couples significantly to the light field, that is the simplified picture of a single "mechanical" oscillator mode remains valid.

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