2009/09/11 by Georg Heinrich, Jack Harris, J. G. E. Harris +1
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum Information and Cryptography #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.81.011801
published as Phys. Rev. A 81, 011801(R) (2010) · 4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2009/09/11 · openalex publication_date 2010/01/05 · arxiv updated 2010/05/13 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The motion of micro- and nanomechanical resonators can be coupled to electromagnetic fields. Such optomechanical setups allow one to explore the interaction of light and matter in a new regime at the boundary between quantum and classical physics. We propose an approach to investigate nonequilibrium photon dynamics driven by mechanical motion in a recently developed setup with a membrane between two mirrors, where photons can be shuttled between the two halves of the cavity. For modest driving strength we predict the possibility of observing an Autler-Townes splitting indicative of Rabi dynamics. For large drive, we show that this system displays Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg dynamics originally known from atomic two-state systems.