Creating and verifying a quantum superposition in a micro-optomechanical system

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kleckner, Dustin ^a   Pikovski, Igor ^b,c   Jeffrey, Evan ^b   Ament, Luuk ^d   Eliel, Eric ^b   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^d,e   Bouwmeester, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; QUANTUM THEORY;

DECOHERENCE; FINITE TEMPERATURES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSES; LOWER BOUNDS; MASSIVE SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL COOLING; OPTOMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PHONON NUMBERS; PRACTICAL; QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICALS; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; TIME-SCALE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 54249107378     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/9/095020     Document Type: Article

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