Continuous Acceleration Sensing Using Optomechanical Droplets

Abstract

We show that a Bose–Einstein Condensate illuminated by a far off-resonant optical pump field and its retroreflection from a feedback mirror can produce stable, localised structures known as optomechanical droplets. We show that these droplets could be used to measure the acceleration of a BEC via continuous monitoring of the position of the droplet via the optical intensity distribution.

Keywords

• optomechanics
• BEC
• quantum transport
• acceleration sensing
• force sensing