Quantum-criticality-induced strong Kerr nonlinearities in optomechanical systems

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lü, Xin You ^a,b   Zhang, Wei Min ^a,c   Ashhab, Sahel ^a   Wu, Ying ^b   Nori, Franco ^a,d,e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON;

EID: 85043640459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02943     Document Type: Article

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