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Phys. Rev. A 78, 013824 (2008) [7 pages]

Cavity optomechanical coupling assisted by an atomic gas

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H. Ian1,2, Z. R. Gong1,2, Yu-xi Liu2,3, C. P. Sun1,2, and Franco Nori2,3,4
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
2Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
3CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
4Center for Theoretical Physics, Physics Department, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA

Received 6 March 2008; published 17 July 2008

We theoretically study a cavity filled with atoms, which provides the optical-mechanical interaction between the modified cavity photonic field and a oscillating mirror at one end. We show that the cavity field “dresses” these atoms, producing two types of polaritons, effectively enhancing the radiation pressure of the cavity field upon the oscillating mirror, as well as establishing an additional squeezing mode of the oscillating mirror. This squeezing produces an adiabatic entanglement, which is absent in usual vacuum cavities, between the oscillating mirror and the rest of the system. We analyze the entanglement and quantify it using the Loschmidt echo and fidelity.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013824
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013824
PACS:
42.50.Wk, 85.85.+j