title: Macroscopic tunneling of a membrane in an optomechanical double-well potential.
abstract: The macroscopic tunneling of an optomechanical membrane is considered. A cavity mode which couples quadratically to the membranes position can create highly tunable adiabatic double-well potentials, which together with the high Q factors of such membranes render the observation of macroscopic tunneling possible. A suitable, pulsed measurement scheme using a linearly coupled mode of the cavity for the verification of the effect is studied.
authors.affiliation: College of Optical Sciences and B2 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Buchmann
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chiruvelli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meystre