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SCIENCE
Volume 322, Issue 5899, Pages 235-238Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1163218
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- SCALA Integrated Project (European Union)
- QSIT (ETH Zurich)
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Cavity optomechanics studies the coupling between a mechanical oscillator and the electromagnetic field in a cavity. We report on a cavity optomechanical system in which a collective density excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate serves as the mechanical oscillator coupled to the cavity field. A few photons inside the ultrahigh-finesse cavity trigger strongly driven back-action dynamics, in quantitative agreement with a cavity optomechanical model. We approach the strong coupling regime of cavity optomechanics, where a single excitation of the mechanical oscillator substantially influences the cavity field. The results open up new directions for investigating mechanical oscillators in the quantum regime and the border between classical and quantum physics.
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