Optomechanical sensing of spontaneous wave-function collapse

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Nimmrichter, Stefan ^a   Hornberger, Klaus ^a   Hammerer, Klemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CLASSICAL BEHAVIOR; DECOHERENCE PROCESS; DINGER EQUATION; MEASUREMENT NOISE; NANOMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE;

EQUIPMENT TESTING;

EID: 84904320534     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.020405     Document Type: Article

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