Eyal Buks, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
The field of cavity optomechanics deals with a family of systems, each is composed of two coupled elements. The first one is a mechanical resonator, commonly having low damping rate, and the second one is an ancilla system, which is typically externally driven. The talk will be devoted to three configurations: a mechanical opto-microwave cavity [1] , an on-fiber optomechanical cavity [2] , and a vibrating superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) [3]. A variety of phenomena will be discussed including linear and nonlinear spring effect, mode cooling, super-critical and sub-critical Hopf bifurcation and self-excited oscillation. The feasibility of experimental exploration of non-classicality at a macroscopic scale in the systems under study will be briefly discussed.
[1] Oren Suchoi, Keren Shlomi, Lior Ella and Eyal Buks, arXiv:1408.2331 and Phys. Rev. A 90, 033818 (2014).
[2] Yuvaraj Dhayalan, Ilya Baskin, Keren Shlomi and Eyal Buks, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 210403 (2014)
[3] Lior Ella, D. Yuvaraj, Oren Suchoi, Oleg Shtempluk, Eyal Buks, arXiv:1312.1247.