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Quantum metrology with Bloch Oscillations in Floquet phase space
Keye Zhang, Weijie Liang, Pierre Meystre +1
Quantum particles performing Bloch oscillations in a spatially periodic potential can be used as a very accurate detector of constant forces. We find that the similar oscillations…
Quantum Non-demolition Measurements in the Relativistic Dirac Oscillator
Wei Sun, Keye Zhang, Pierre Meystre +1
We investigate the feasibility of performing quantum non-demolition (QND) measurements in relativistic quantum systems, using the one-dimensional Dirac oscillator as a specific exa…
Non-Markovian collective emission from macroscopically separated emitters
Kanupriya Sinha, Pierre Meystre, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt +3
We study the collective radiative decay of a system of two two-level emitters coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide in a regime where their separation is comparable to the coheren…
Relativistic Measurement Backaction in the Quantum Dirac Oscillator
Keye Zhang, Lu Zhou, Pierre Meystre +1
An elegant method to circumvent quantum measurement backaction is the use of quantum mechanics free subsystems (QMFS), with one approach involving the use of two oscillators with e…
Collective effects in Casimir-Polder forces
Kanupriya Sinha, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Pierre Meystre
We study cooperative phenomena in the fluctuation-induced forces between a surface and a system of neutral two-level quantum emitters prepared in a coherent collective state, showi…
One qubit and one photon -- the simplest polaritonic heat engine
Qiao Song, Swati Singh, Keye Zhang +2
Hybrid quantum systems can often be described in terms of polaritons. These are quasiparticles formed of superpositions of their constituents, with relative weights depending on so…
Work measurement in an optomechanical quantum heat engine
Ying Dong, Keye Zhang, Francesco Bariani +1
We analyze theoretically the measurement of the mean output work and its fluctuations in a recently proposed optomechanical quantum heat engine [K. Zhang {\it et al.} Phys. Rev. Le…
Proposal for an Optomechanical Microwave Sensor at the Subphoton Level
Keye Zhang, Francesco Bariani, Ying Dong +2
Because of their low energy content, microwave signals at the single-photon level are extremely challenging to measure. Guided by recent progress in single-photon optomechanics and…
Theory of an optomechanical quantum heat engine
Keye Zhang, Francesco Bariani, Pierre Meystre
Coherent interconversion between optical and mechanical excitations in an optomechanical cavity can be used to engineer a quantum heat engine. This heat engine is based on an Otto…
Quantum Optomechanical Heat Engine
Keye Zhang, Francesco Bariani, Pierre Meystre
We investigate theoretically a quantum optomechanical realization of a heat engine. In a generic optomechanical arrangement the optomechanical coupling between the cavity field and…
Mechanically Detecting and Avoiding the Quantum Fluctuations of a Microwave Field
J. Suh, A. J. Weinstein, C. U. Lei +5
During the theoretical investigation of the ultimate sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors through the 1970's and '80's, it was debated whether quantum fluctuations of the li…
Single-atom quantum control of macroscopic mechanical oscillators
F. Bariani, J. Otterbach, Huatang Tan +1
We investigate a hybrid electro-mechanical system consisting of a pair of charged macroscopic mechanical oscillators coupled to a small ensemble of Rydberg atoms. The resonant dipo…
Multimode strong-coupling quantum optomechanics
H. Seok, L. F. Buchmann, E. M. Wright +1
We study theoretically the dynamics of multiple mechanical oscillators coupled to a single cavity field mode via linear or quadratic optomechanical interactions. We focus specifica…
Phase Conjugation in Quantum Optomechanics
L. F. Buchmann, E. M. Wright, P. Meystre
We analyze the phase conjugate coupling of a pair of optomechanical oscillator modes driven by the time-dependent beat-note due to a two-color optical field. The dynamics of the di…
Optomechanical back-action evading measurement without parametric instability
Steven K. Steinke, K. C. Schwab, Pierre Meystre
We review a scheme for performing a back-action evading measurement of one mechanical quadrature in an optomechanical setup. The experimental application of this scheme has been li…
Back-action-free quantum optomechanics with negative-mass Bose-Einstein condensates
Keye Zhang, Pierre Meystre, Weiping Zhang
We propose that the dispersion management of coherent atomic matter waves can be exploited to overcome quantum back-action in condensate-based optomechanical sensors. The effective…
Deterministic macroscopic quantum superpositions of motion via quadratic optomechanical coupling
Huatang Tan, F. Bariani, Gaoxiang Li +1
We propose a scheme to prepare macroscopic quantum superpositions of motion in optomachanical nano- or micromechanical oscillators quadratically coupled to an intracavity field. Th…
Quantum back-action in spinor condensate magnetometry
S. K. Steinke, S. Singh, P. Meystre +2
We provide a theoretical treatment of the quantum backaction of Larmor frequency measurements on a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate by an off-resonant light field. Two main results…
Role reversal in a Bose-condensed optomechanical system
Keye Zhang, Pierre Meystre, Weiping Zhang
We analyze the optomechanics-like properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped inside an optical resonator and driven by both a classical and a quantized light field. We…
Spin Squeezing with Coherent Light via Entanglement Swapping
Mehmet Emre Tasgin, Pierre Meystre
We analyze theoretically a scheme that produces spin squeezing via the continuous swapping of atom-photon entanglement into atom-atom entanglement, and propose an explicit experime…
The role of quantum fluctuations in the optomechanical properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring cavity
Steven K. Steinke, Pierre Meystre
We analyze a detailed model of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a ring optical resonator and contrast its classical and quantum properties to those of a Fabry-P{é}rot geometry…
Laser phase noise effects on the dynamics of optomechanical resonators
Gregory A. Phelps, Pierre Meystre
We investigate theoretically the influence of laser phase noise on the cooling and heating of a generic cavity optomechanical system. We derive the back-action damping and heating…
Laser-catalyzed spin-exchange process in a Bose-Einstein condensate
H. Jing, Y. Jiang, Weiping Zhang +1
We show theoretically that it is possible to optically control collective spin-exchange processes in spinor Bose condensates through virtual photoassociation. The interplay between…
Measuring the quantum state of a nanomechanical oscillator
Swati Singh, Pierre Meystre
We propose a scheme to measure the quantum state of a nanomechanical oscillator cooled near its ground state of vibrational motion. This is an extension of the nonlinear atomic hom…