Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Resonator Mode to its Quantum Ground State

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Wilson Rae, I ^a,b,c,d   Zoller, P ^c,d   Imamoglu A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COOLING; DAMPING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; LASER APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHONONS; PHOTONS; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WETTING;

NANOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (NMS); OPTICAL TRANSITIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1642632624     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.075507     Document Type: Article

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