The effect of Landau-Zener dynamics on phonon lasing

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Optomechanical systems couple light to the motion of nanomechanical objects.

• Intriguing new effects are observed in recent experiments that involve the dynamics of more than one optical mode.
• There, mechanical motion can stimulate strongly driven multi-mode photon dynamics that acts back on the mechanics via radiation forces.
• We show that even for two optical modes Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg oscillations of the light field drastically change the nonlinear attractor diagram of the resulting phonon lasing oscillations.