Rahman, ATMA;
Barker, PF;
(2021)
Realizing Einstein’s Mirror: Optomechanical Damping with a Thermal Photon Gas.
Physical Review Letters
, 127
, Article 213602. 10.1103/physrevlett.127.213602.
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Abstract
Einstein described the damping and thermalization of the center-of-mass motion of a mirror placed inside a blackbody cavity by collisions with thermal photons. While the time for damping even a microscale or nanoscale object is so long that it is not experimentally viable, we show that this damping is feasible using the high-intensity light from an amplified thermal light source with a well-defined chemical potential. We predict this damping of the center-of-mass motion will occur on timescales of tens of seconds for small optomechanical systems.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Realizing Einstein’s Mirror: Optomechanical Damping with a Thermal Photon Gas |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevlett.127.213602 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.213602 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138881 |
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