Observation and interpretation of motional sideband asymmetry in a quantum electromechanical device

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Weinstein, A J ^a,b   Lei, C U ^a,b   Wollman, E E ^a,b   Suh, J ^a,b,d   Metelmann, A ^c   Clerk, A A ^c   Schwab, K C ^a,b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mechanics; Quantum information; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GROUND STATE; MECHANICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM NOISE; QUANTUM OPTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

HEISENBERG'S UNCERTAINTY; MICROWAVE TRANSDUCER; MOTIONAL SIDEBANDS; PARAMETRIC TRANSDUCERS; QUANTUM ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM PHYSICS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 84921464568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041003     Document Type: Article

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