Macroscopic Tunneling of a Membrane in an Optomechanical Double-Well Potential

作者:Buchmann, L. F.*; Zhang, L.; Chiruvelli, A.; Meystre, P.
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2012, 108(21): 210403.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.210403

摘要

The macroscopic tunneling of an optomechanical membrane is considered. A cavity mode which couples quadratically to the membranes position can create highly tunable adiabatic double-well potentials, which together with the high Q factors of such membranes render the observation of macroscopic tunneling possible. A suitable, pulsed measurement scheme using a linearly coupled mode of the cavity for the verification of the effect is studied.