Estimation of disorders in the rest positions of two membranes in optomechanical systems

Abstract

The formalism of quantum estimation theory is applied to estimate the disorders in the positions of two membranes positioned in a driven cavity. We consider the coupled-cavities and the transmissive-regime models to obtain effective descriptions of this system for different reflectivity values of the membranes. Our models consist also high temperatures Brownian motions of the membranes, losses of the cavity fields, the input-output formalism and a balanced homodyne photodetection of the cavity output field. In this two-parameter estimation scenario we compare the classical and quantum Fisher information matrices and evaluate the accuracies of the estimations. We show that models prefer very different estimation strategies and the temperature does not have a detrimental effect on the estimation accuracies, but makes more difficult to attain the quantum optimal limit. Our analysis also reveals that best estimation strategies with unit effiecient detectors are measurements of the quadratures of the output field.

15 pages, 6 figures

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