Motion detection of a micromechanical resonator embedded in a d.c. SQUID

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 785-788

  Etaki, S ^a,b   Poot, M ^a   Mahboob, I ^b   Onomitsu, K ^b   Yamaguchi, H ^b   Van Der Zant, H S J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND STATE; MOLLUSCS; MOTION ANALYSIS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; QUBITS; SHELLFISH; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; MILLIKELVIN TEMPERATURES; MOTION DETECTION; POSITION DETECTION; POSITION RESOLUTION; SENSITIVE DETECTION; SENSITIVE DETECTOR;

MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 53349164669     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1057     Document Type: Article

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