Sideband cooling beyond the quantum backaction limit with squeezed light

Nature

Volumn 541, Issue 7636, 2017, Pages 191-195

  Clark, Jeremy B ^a   Lecocq, Florent ^a   Simmonds, Raymond W ^a   Aumentado, José ^a   Teufel, John D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COOLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LASER METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; COOLING; LIGHT; MOTION; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85016148998     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20604     Document Type: Article

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