Optomechanical entanglement between a movable mirror and a cavity field

Vitali, D.; Gigan, S.; Ferreira, A.; Boehm, H. R.; Tombesi, P.; Guerreiro, A.; Vedral, V.; Zeilinger, A.; Aspelmeyer, M.

Optomechanical entanglement between a movable mirror and a cavity field

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We show how stationary entanglement between an optical cavity field mode and a macroscopic vibrating mirror can be generated by means of radiation pressure. We also show how the generated optomechanical entanglement can be quantified and we suggest an experimental readout-scheme to fully characterize the entangled state. Surprisingly, such optomechanical entanglement is shown to persist for environment temperatures above 20K using state-of-the-art experimental parameters.
4 pages, 3 figures