Effects of the Casimir force on the properties of a hybrid optomechanical system<xref rid="cpb_28_1_014202_fn1" ref-type="fn">*</xref><fn id="cpb_28_1_014202_fn1"><label>*</label><p>Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574092, 61775062, 61378012, 91121023, and 60978009), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB921804), and the Innovation Project of Graduate School of South China Normal University (Grant No. 2017LKXM090).</p></fn>

Effects of the Casimir force on the properties of a hybrid optomechanical system**

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574092, 61775062, 61378012, 91121023, and 60978009), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2013CB921804), and the Innovation Project of Graduate School of South China Normal University (Grant No. 2017LKXM090).

Wang Yi-Ping, Zhang Zhu-Cheng, Yu Ya-Fei^†, Zhang Zhi-Ming^‡

Schematic diagram of the proposed hybrid optomechanical system. The Fabry–Pérot cavity contains a movable mirror, which interacts with both the cavity field via the radiation pressure and the nearby fixed gold-coated nanosphere via the Casimir force. In addition, the system is simultaneously driven by a strong control field with amplitude ε_L and a weak probe field with amplitude ε_p. ε_out is the amplitude of the output field, and x describes the deviation of the mirror from its equilibrium position.