Quantum nondemolition measurement of Fock states of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Santamore, D H ^a,b,c   Doherty, A C ^c,d,e   Cross, M C ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MESON; OSCILLATOR; PHONON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 42749102049     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.144301     Document Type: Article

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