Room-temperature quantum optomechanics using an ultralow noise cavity

G Huang, A Beccari, NJ Engelsen, TJ Kippenberg - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been
observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the …

[HTML][HTML] Multimode optomechanics with a two-dimensional optomechanical crystal

G Madiot, M Albrechtsen, S Stobbe… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Chip-scale multimode optomechanical systems have unique benefits for sensing, metrology,
and quantum technologies relative to their single-mode counterparts. Slot-mode …

Optical self-cooling of a membrane oscillator in a cavity optomechanical experiment at room temperature

P Vezio, M Bonaldi, A Borrielli, F Marino, B Morana… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Thermal noise is a major obstacle to observing quantum behavior in macroscopic systems.
To mitigate its effect, quantum optomechanical experiments are typically performed in a …

Motional sideband asymmetry of a solid-state mechanical resonator at room temperature

Y Xia, G Huang, A Beccari, A Zicoschi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The motional sideband asymmetry of a mechanical oscillator interacting with a laser field
can be observed when approaching the quantum ground state, where the zero-point energy …

Quantum-limited optical lever measurement of a torsion oscillator

CM Pluchar, AR Agrawal, DJ Wilson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11397, 2024 - arxiv.org
The optical lever is a precision displacement sensor with broad applications. In principle, it
can track the motion of a mechanical oscillator with added noise at the Standard Quantum …