Sideband cooling of micromechanical motion to the quantum ground state

Nature

Volumn 475, Issue 7356, 2011, Pages 359-363

  Teufel, J D ^a   Donner, T ^b   Li, Dale ^a   Harlow, J W ^b   Allman, M S ^a,b   Cicak, K ^a   Sirois, A J ^a,b   Whittaker, J D ^a,b   Lehnert, K W ^b   Simmonds, R W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONDENSATE; COOLING; MEMBRANE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; MICROWAVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; VACUUM;

EID: 79960631083     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10261     Document Type: Article

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