Entanglement and Ground State Cooling in Optomechanical Systems

David Vitali, Professor of Physics, University of Camerino, Italy

Cavity optomechanical systems, in which an optical cavity is coupled by radiation pressure to a vibrational degree of freedom, represent a new promising tool for the investigation of quantum effects at the mesoscopic and macroscopic level. We shall see how quantum states of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator can be generated in a robust way and how multipartite continuous variable entanglement can be generated and manipulated in these systems.

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