Resolving vacuum fluctuations in an electrical circuit by measuring the lamb shift

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5906, 2008, Pages 1357-1360

  Fragner, A ^a   Goppl M ^a   Fink, J M ^a   Baur, M ^a   Bianchetti, R ^a   Leek, P J ^a   Blais, A ^b   Wallraff, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 57149121481     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164482     Document Type: Article

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33. We thank G. Blatter for stimulating discussions and L. Bishop, P. Studer, J. Koch, and R. Schoelkopf for their support in analyzing vacuum Rabi-mode spectra in the presence of thermal photons. This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and ETHZ. P.J.L. was supported by the European Commission with a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. A.B. was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies.