Sisyphus cooling and amplification by a superconducting qubit

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 612-616

  Grajcar, M ^a,b   Van Der Ploeg, S H W ^a   Izmalkov, A ^a   Il'ichev, E ^a   Meyer, H G ^a   Fedorov, A ^c   Shnirman, A ^d   Schön, Gerd ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM LASERS; ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRODYNAMICS; LASER COOLING; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATORS;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; HIGH-FREQUENCY DRIVING; LASER COOLING OF ATOMS; POPULATION INVERSIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS; TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

QUBITS;

EID: 48749101938     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1019     Document Type: Article

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