• 文献标题:   Harnessing Vacuum Forces for Quantum Sensing of Graphene Motion
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MUSCHIK CA, MOULIERAS S, BACHTOLD A, KOPPENS FHL, LEWENSTEIN M, CHANG DE
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   ICFO Inst Ciencies Foton
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.223601
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Position measurements at the quantum level are vital for many applications but also challenging. Typically, methods based on optical phase shifts are used, but these methods are often weak and difficult to apply to many materials. An important example is graphene, which is an excellent mechanical resonator due to its small mass and an outstanding platform for nanotechnologies, but it is largely transparent. Here, we present a novel detection scheme based upon the strong, dispersive vacuum interactions between a graphene sheet and a quantum emitter. In particular, the mechanical displacement causes strong changes in the vacuum-induced shifts of the transition frequency of the emitter, which can be read out via optical fields. We show that this enables strong quantum squeezing of the graphene position on time scales that are short compared to the mechanical period.