Gravimetry enhanced by nonreciprocal optomechanical coupling

Gravimetry enhanced by nonreciprocal optomechanical coupling | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Gravimetry enhanced by nonreciprocal optomechanical coupling Dong Xie, Chunling Xu This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7103089/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 9 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract We explore how to measure the gravitational acceleration by using a dissipative optomechanical cavity. What is quite different from the conventional measurement methods is that we have constructed a nonreciprocal optomechanical coupling. We demonstrate that nonreciprocal coupling has a much greater advantage than reciprocal coupling. When the coherent optomechanical coupling is relatively weak and the driving intensity of single photon is strong, nonreciprocal coupling can improve the measurement precision by a factor of two. When the driving strength of single photon tends to infinity, reciprocal coupling fails to obtain any information about the gravitational acceleration, while nonreciprocal coupling still does. Using a two-photon driving, the measurement uncertainty of the gravitational acceleration will tend to zero as the intensity of two-photon driving approaches the critical point. The critical value of the two-photon driving intensity required for nonreciprocal coupling is finite, but the critical value of the two-photon driving intensity required for reciprocal coupling is infinite. The combination of the amplification of mechanical parameters and the extra force can not improve the measurement precision, but it can enhance the susceptibility. Furthermore, when the single-photon driving field is relatively weak, we analytically calculate the quantum Fisher information. The results show that, under most experimental parameters, nonreciprocal coupling still performs better than reciprocal coupling. Physical sciences/Optics and photonics Physical sciences/Physics Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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