TY - JOUR
AU - D. Chang
AU - Cindy Regal
AU - S. Papp
AU - D. Wilson
AU - Jun Ye
AU - O. Painter
AU - H. Kimble
AU - Peter Zoller
AB - Recently, remarkable advances have been made in coupling a number of high-Q modes of nano-mechanical systems to high-finesse optical cavities, with the goal of reaching regimes in which quantum behavior can be observed and leveraged toward new applications. To reach this regime, the coupling between these systems and their thermal environments must be minimized. Here we propose a novel approach to this problem, in which optically levitating a nano-mechanical system can greatly reduce its thermal contact, while simultaneously eliminating dissipation arising from clamping. Through the long coherence times allowed, this approach potentially opens the door to ground-state cooling and coherent manipulation of a single mesoscopic mechanical system or entanglement generation between spatially separate systems, even in room-temperature environments. As an example, we show that these goals should be achievable when the mechanical mode consists of the center-of-mass motion of a levitated nanosphere.


BT - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DA - 2010-01
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0912969107
N2 - Recently, remarkable advances have been made in coupling a number of high-Q modes of nano-mechanical systems to high-finesse optical cavities, with the goal of reaching regimes in which quantum behavior can be observed and leveraged toward new applications. To reach this regime, the coupling between these systems and their thermal environments must be minimized. Here we propose a novel approach to this problem, in which optically levitating a nano-mechanical system can greatly reduce its thermal contact, while simultaneously eliminating dissipation arising from clamping. Through the long coherence times allowed, this approach potentially opens the door to ground-state cooling and coherent manipulation of a single mesoscopic mechanical system or entanglement generation between spatially separate systems, even in room-temperature environments. As an example, we show that these goals should be achievable when the mechanical mode consists of the center-of-mass motion of a levitated nanosphere.


PY - 2010
SP - 1005
EP - 1010
T2 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
TI - Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere
UR - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0912969107
VL - 107
SN - 0027-8424
ER -