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Title: Photon shuttle: Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg dynamics in an optomechanical system

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Center for NanoScience and Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Theresienstr. 37, D-80333 Muenchen (Germany)
  2. Department of Physics, Yale University, 217 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)

The motion of micro- and nanomechanical resonators can be coupled to electromagnetic fields. Such optomechanical setups allow one to explore the interaction of light and matter in a new regime at the boundary between quantum and classical physics. We propose an approach to investigate nonequilibrium photon dynamics driven by mechanical motion in a recently developed setup with a membrane between two mirrors, where photons can be shuttled between the two halves of the cavity. For modest driving strength we predict the possibility of observing an Autler-Townes splitting indicative of Rabi dynamics. For large drive, we show that this system displays Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg dynamics originally known from atomic two-state systems.

OSTI ID:
21388668
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 81, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.011801; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English