Phonon counting and intensity interferometry of a nanomechanical resonator

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7548, 2015, Pages 522-525

  Cohen, Justin D ^a   Meenehan, Seán M ^a   MacCabe, Gregory S ^a   Gröblacher, Simon ^a,b,e   Safavi Naeini, Amir H ^a,c   Marsili, Francesco ^d   Shaw, Matthew D ^d   Painter, Oskar ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Vienna Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology   (Austria)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928568407     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14349     Document Type: Article

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