Review of cavity optomechanical cooling

作     者：刘永椿 胡毓文 黄智维 肖云峰 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and School of Physics Peking University Optical Nanostructures Laboratory Columbia University New York 

出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第22卷第11期

页      面：101-113页

核心收录：

学科分类：0832[工学-食品科学与工程（可授工学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 070201[理学-理论物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 083203[工学-农产品加工及贮藏工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB328704) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11004003,11222440,and 11121091) the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(Grant No.20120001110068) the Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student granted by Ministry of Education,China 

主　　题：cavity optomechanics optomechanical cooling ground state cooling mechanical resonator 

摘      要：Quantum manipulation of macroscopic mechanical systems is of great interest in both fundamental physics and ap- plications ranging from high-precision metrology to quantum information processing. For these purposes, a crucial step is to cool the mechanical system to its quantum ground state. In this review, we focus on the cavity optomechanical cooling, which exploits the cavity enhanced interaction between optical field and mechanical motion to reduce the thermal noise. Recent remarkable theoretical and experimental efforts in this field have taken a major step forward in preparing the mo- tional quantum ground state of mesoscopic mechanical systems. This review first describes the quantum theory of cavity optomechanical cooling, including quantum noise approach and covariance approach; then, the up-to-date experimental progresses are introduced. Finally, new cooling approaches are discussed along the directions of cooling in the strong coupling regime and cooling beyond the resolved sideband limit.