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Macroscopic tunneling of a membrane in an optomechanical double-well potential
L F Buchmann1, L Zhang, A Chiruvelli
1College of Optical Sciences and B2 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|September 26, 2012
Abstract:
The macroscopic tunneling of an optomechanical membrane is considered. A cavity mode which couples quadratically to the membranes position can create highly tunable adiabatic double-well potentials, which together with the high Q factors of such membranes render the observation of macroscopic tunneling possible. A suitable, pulsed measurement scheme using a linearly coupled mode of the cavity for the verification of the effect is studied.

