Coherent control of a nanomechanical two-mode system

 

The nanomechanical two-mode system realized in the avoided crossing of two strongly coupled nanomechanical modes is a remarkable testbed to study Landau-Zener dynamics of single or multiple passages (Stückelberg interference) through the avoided crossing. Even more it entails  analogies with two level systems, and allows for state manipulation on a classical Bloch sphere by means of radio frequency pulses, and to explore the underlying decoherence processes via Rabi, Ramsey and Hahn echo measurements.
See: Faust et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 037205 (2012), Faust, Nature Physics 9, 485 (2013), Seitner et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 245406 (2016), Seitner et al., New. J. Phys. 19, 033011 (2017)