Macroscopic quantum mechanics: theory and experimental concepts of optomechanics
By Yanbei Chen. 2013
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Rapid experimental progress has recently allowed the use of light to prepare macroscopic mechanical objects into nearly pure quantum states. This research field of quantum optomechanics opens new doors towards testing quantum mechanics, and possibly other laws of physics, in new regimes. In the first part of this article, I will review a set of techniques of quantum measurement theory that are often used to analyse quantum optomechanical systems. Some of these techniques were originally designed to analyse how a classical driving force passes through a quantum system, and can eventually be detected with an optimal signal-to-noise ratio—while others focus more on the quantum-state evolution of a mechanical object under continuous monitoring. In the second part of this article, I will review a set of experimental concepts that will demonstrate quantum mechanical behaviour of macroscopic objects—quantum entanglement, quantum teleportation and the quantum Zeno effect. Taking the interplay between gravity and quantum mechanics as an example, I will review a set of speculations on how quantum mechanics can be modified for macroscopic objects, and how these speculations—and their generalizations—might be tested by optomechanics.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Tabletop experiments for quantum gravity: a user’s manual (2018, unknown): “For more exhaustive treatments of some background on topics influencing this work, we refer the interested reader to reviews of optomechanics [37,38], electromechanics [39], matter-wave interferometry [40], quantum sensing [41,42], and gravitational decoherence [43].”
- Quantum squeezed light in gravitational-wave detectors (2014, background): “Novel directions of research and applications of squeezed states [91–93] along with new ideas in quantum non-demolition and quantum opto-mechanics (see for example review papers by Chen [94], Adhikari [95] and McClelland et al [15]) will ensure the vibrance of the field for many years to come.”