Quantum friction of micromechanical resonators at low temperatures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Ahn, Kang Hun ^a   Mohanty, Pritiraj ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ENERGY GAP; GRAPH THEORY; HAMILTONIANS; INTERNAL FRICTION; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHONONS;

MICROMECHANICAL RESONATOR; PHONON PUMPING; QUANTUM FRICTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT INTERNAL FRICTION; TWO-LEVEL DEFECT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037471131     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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