Master equation for the motion of a polarizable particle in a multimode cavity
- Author(s)
- Stefan Nimmrichter, Klemens Hammerer, Peter Asenbaum, Helmut Ritsch, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
We derive a master equation for the motion of a polarizable particle weakly interacting with one or several strongly pumped cavity modes. We focus here on massive particles with a complex internal structure, such as large molecules and clusters, for which we assume a linear scalar polarizability mediating the particle-light interaction. The predicted friction and diffusion coefficients are in good agreement with former semiclassical calculations for atoms and small molecules in weakly pumped cavities, while the current rigorous quantum treatment and numerical assessment sheds light on the feasibility of experiments that aim to optically manipulate beams of massive molecules with multimode cavities.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
- Journal
- New Journal of Physics
- Volume
- 12
- No. of pages
- 28
- ISSN
- 1367-2630
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083003
- Publication date
- 2010
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/master-equation-for-the-motion-of-a-polarizable-particle-in-a-multimode-cavity(8bb7685d-0812-4f87-b120-1a1c561cb83a).html