{
  "id": "0807.2347",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2008-07-15T11:37:58.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-07-15T11:37:58.000Z",
  "title": "Cavity Opto-Mechanics with a Bose-Einstein Condensate",
  "authors": [
    "Ferdinand Brennecke",
    "Stephan Ritter",
    "Tobias Donner",
    "Tilman Esslinger"
  ],
  "comment": "F.B. and S.R. contributed equally to this work. 6 pages, 4 figures",
  "journal": "Science 322, 235-238 (2008)",
  "doi": "10.1126/science.1163218",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.other"
  ],
  "abstract": "Cavity opto-mechanics studies the coupling between a mechanical oscillator and a cavity field, with the aim to shed light on the border between classical and quantum physics. Here we report on a cavity opto-mechanical system in which a collective density excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate is shown to serve as the mechanical oscillator coupled to the cavity field. We observe that a few photons inside the ultrahigh-finesse cavity trigger a strongly driven back-action dynamics, in quantitative agreement with a cavity opto-mechanical model. With this experiment we approach the strong coupling regime of cavity opto-mechanics, where a single excitation of the mechanical oscillator significantly influences the cavity field. The work opens up new directions to investigate mechanical oscillators in the quantum regime and quantum gases with non-local coupling.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2008-07-15T11:37:58.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "bose-einstein condensate",
      "cavity field",
      "cavity opto-mechanics studies",
      "strongly driven back-action dynamics",
      "ultrahigh-finesse cavity trigger"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Science",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 322,
      "number": 5899,
      "pages": 235
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008Sci...322..235B"
    }
  }
}