Non-classical correlations between single photons and phonons from a mechanical oscillator

Nature

Volumn 530, Issue 7590, 2016, Pages 313-316

  Riedinger, Ralf ^a   Hong, Sungkun ^a   Norte, Richard A ^b   Slater, Joshua A ^a   Shang, Juying ^c   Krause, Alexander G ^b   Anant, Vikas ^c   Aspelmeyer, Markus ^a   Gröblacher, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Photon Spot Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL OSCILLATOR; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOTION; OSCILLATOR; PHONON; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 84959016987     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16536     Document Type: Article

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