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TY - JOUR
T1 - Cavity quantum electrodynamics of continuously monitored Bose-condensed atoms
AU - Lee, Mark
AU - Ruostekoski, Janne
PY - 2015/9/23
Y1 - 2015/9/23
N2 - We study cavity quantum electrodynamics of Bose-condensed atoms that are subjected to continuous monitoring of the light leaking out of the cavity. Due to a given detection record of each stochastic realization, individual runs spontaneously break the symmetry of the spatial profile of the atom cloud and this symmetry can be restored by considering ensemble averages over many realizations. We show that the cavity optomechanical excitations of the condensate can be engineered to target specific collective modes. This is achieved by exploiting the spatial structure and symmetries of the collective modes and light fields. The cavity fields can be utilized both for strong driving of the collective modes and for their measurement. In the weak excitation limit the condensate–cavity system may be employed as a sensitive phonon detector which operates by counting photons outside the cavity that have been selectively scattered by desired phonons.
AB - We study cavity quantum electrodynamics of Bose-condensed atoms that are subjected to continuous monitoring of the light leaking out of the cavity. Due to a given detection record of each stochastic realization, individual runs spontaneously break the symmetry of the spatial profile of the atom cloud and this symmetry can be restored by considering ensemble averages over many realizations. We show that the cavity optomechanical excitations of the condensate can be engineered to target specific collective modes. This is achieved by exploiting the spatial structure and symmetries of the collective modes and light fields. The cavity fields can be utilized both for strong driving of the collective modes and for their measurement. In the weak excitation limit the condensate–cavity system may be employed as a sensitive phonon detector which operates by counting photons outside the cavity that have been selectively scattered by desired phonons.
KW - ultracold atoms
KW - cavity quantum electrodynamics
KW - bose–einstein condensates
KW - cavity optomechanics
KW - phonon detection
KW - continuous quantum measurement
U2 - 10.3390/atoms3030450
DO - 10.3390/atoms3030450
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 450
EP - 473
JO - Atoms
JF - Atoms
SN - 2218-2004
IS - 3
ER -