摘要
Guided by recent progress in ground state cooling and ultraweak force sensing in the optomechanical systems with optically levitated particles,we propose a novel quantum sensing protocol that can detect the gradient of a force field directly with extremely high sensitivity.The system consists of a pair of nanospheres levitated in the high vacuum environment with optical tweezers and an optical resonator.By positioning the two spheres suitably relative to the cavity,only the collective breathing mode of the sphere pair couples to the cavity field.This optomechanical coupling will transfer the information of force difference acting on the two sensors to cavity photons,which can then be detected directly at the output of the cavity.Given the optimal control of various technical noise sources,the sensitivity could reach 10^(-15)N m^(-1)/√HZ with a high spatial resolution of micron scale on a state-of-the-art experimental setup.The potential application of this protocol in searching for short range“new force”is analyzed.Compared with conventional searching protocols with a single levitated sphere,the method proposed here can increase the signal-to-noise ratio by more than one magnitude in a large searching parameter space.
基金
supported by the Major Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Lab(Grant No.2019 MB0AD01)
the Center initiated Research Project of Zhejiang Lab(Grant No.2021MB0AL01)
the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LQ22A040010)。
