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Optically Measuring Force near the Standard Quantum Limit
Sydney Schreppler, Nicolas Spethmann, Nathan Brahms +3
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached…
Optical read-out of the quantum motion of an array of atoms-based mechanical oscillators
Thierry Botter, Daniel W. C. Brooks, Sydney Schreppler +2
We create an ultracold-atoms-based cavity optomechanical system in which as many as six distinguishable mechanical oscillators are prepared, and optically detected, near their grou…
Optically detecting the quantization of collective atomic motion
Nathan Brahms, Thierry Botter, Sydney Schreppler +2
We directly measure the quantized collective motion of a gas of thousands of ultracold atoms, coupled to light in a high-finesse optical cavity. We detect strong asymmetries, as hi…
Ponderomotive light squeezing with atomic cavity optomechanics
Daniel W. C. Brooks, Thierry Botter, Nathan Brahms +3
Accessing distinctly quantum aspects of the interaction between light and the position of a mechanical object has been an outstanding challenge to cavity-optomechanical systems. On…
Linear Amplifier Model for Optomechanical Systems
Thierry Botter, Daniel W. C. Brooks, Nathan Brahms +2
We model optomechanical systems as linear optical amplifiers. This provides a unified treatment of diverse optomechanical phenomena. We emphasize, in particular, the relationship b…
Formation and dynamics of van der Waals molecules in buffer-gas traps
Nathan Brahms, Timur V. Tscherbul, Peng Zhang +7
We show that weakly bound He-containing van der Waals molecules can be produced and magnetically trapped in buffer-gas cooling experiments, and provide a general model for the form…