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Achieving long phonon lifetimes

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Spectral hole burning is now demonstrated with phonons in amorphous systems, leading to highly reduced phonon dissipation and, therefore, long phonon lifetimes.

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Figure 1: Spectral hole burning in an amorphous system.

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  1. Maxim Goryachev and Michael E. Tobar are at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, School of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, M013, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia,

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Goryachev, M., Tobar, M. Achieving long phonon lifetimes. Nature Mater 16, 285–286 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4867

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