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Role Reversal in a Bose-Condensed Optomechanical System.
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Physical Review Letters . 6/15/2012, Vol. 108 Issue 24, p1-5. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- We analyze the optomechanicslike properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside an optical resonator and driven by both a classical and a quantized light field. We find that this system exhibits the nature of role reversal between the matter-wave field and the quantized light field. As a result, the matter-wave field now plays the role of the quantized light field, and the quantized light field behaves like a movable mirror, in contrast to the familiar situation in BEC-based cavity optomechanics [Brennecke et al. Science 322,235 (2008); Murch et al. Nature Phys. 4, 561 (2008)]. We demonstrate that this system can lead to the creation of a variety of nonclassical matter-wave fields, in particular, cat states, and discuss several possible protocols to measure their Wigner function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00319007
- Volume :
- 108
- Issue :
- 24
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physical Review Letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 77853558
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.240405