Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum back-action

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7108, 2006, Pages 193-196

  Naik, A ^a,b   Buu, O ^a,c   LaHaye, M D ^a,c   Armour, A D ^d   Clerk, A A ^e   Blencowe, M P ^f   Schwab, K C ^a  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; COOLING; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONATORS; TRANSISTORS;

NANOMECHANICAL RESONATOR; QUANTUM BACK-ACTION; QUANTUM INFORMATION DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTOR (SSET);

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

AMPLIFICATION; BACK ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COOLING; MICROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 33748636436     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05027     Document Type: Article

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