Cavity optomechanics mediated by a quantum two-level system
Pirkkalainen, J.-M., Cho, S., Massel, F., Tuorila, J., Heikkilä, T., Hakonen, P., & Sillanpää, M. (2015). Cavity optomechanics mediated by a quantum two-level system. Nature Communications, 6, Article 6981. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7981
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Coupling electromagnetic waves in a cavity and mechanical vibrations via the radiation pressure of photons is a promising platform for investigations of quantum–mechanical properties of motion. A drawback is that the effect of one photon tends to be tiny, and hence one of the pressing challenges is to substantially increase the interaction strength. A novel scenario is to introduce into the setup a quantum two-level system (qubit), which, besides strengthening the coupling, allows for rich physics via strongly enhanced nonlinearities. Here we present a design of cavity optomechanics in the microwave frequency regime involving a Josephson junction qubit. We demonstrate boosting of the radiation–pressure interaction by six orders of magnitude, allowing to approach the strong coupling regime. We observe nonlinear phenomena at single-photon energies, such as an enhanced damping attributed to the qubit. This work opens up nonlinear cavity optomechanics as a plausible tool for the study of quantum properties of motion.
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