Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state

Nature

Volumn 478, Issue 7367, 2011, Pages 89-92

  Chan, Jasper ^a   Alegre, T P Mayer ^a,c   Safavi Naeini, Amir H ^a   Hill, Jeff T ^a   Krause, Alex ^a   Gröblacher, Simon ^a,b   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^b   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

COOLING; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SILICON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; COOLING; MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOPROBE; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80053931776     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10461     Document Type: Article

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