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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 57: Micromechanical Oscillators II
Q 57.4: Talk
Friday, March 12, 2010, 11:15–11:30, A 320
Single-Photon Optomechanics in the Strong Coupling Regime — •Uzma Akram1, Nikolai Kiesel2, Markus Aspelmeyer2, and Gerard Milburn1 — 1Department of Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia — 2Faculty of Physics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information, University of Vienna, Austria
We give a theoretical description of a coherently driven opto-mechanical system with a single added photon. The photon source is modeled as a cavity which initially contains one photon and which is irreversibly coupled to the opto-mechanical system. We show that the probability for the additional photon to be emitted by the opto-mechanical cavity will exhibit oscillations under a Lorentzian envelope, when the interaction with the mechanical resonator is strong enough. Our scheme provides a feasible route towards quantum state transfer between optical photons and micromechanical resonators.