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Frozen motion

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Cooling the motion of mechanical resonators to the ground state and subsequent advances in cavity optomechanics have been made possible by resolved-sideband cooling — an atomic-physics-inspired technique — first demonstrated in a 2008 Nature Physics paper.

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Figure 1: The mechanism of resolved-sideband cooling of a mechanical oscillator coupled to a resonant system (an atom or cavity) is illustrated by the ladder of harmonic oscillator states, where each rung on the ladder indicates a thermal phonon occupancy, 〈n〉.

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Jayich, A. Frozen motion. Nature Phys 11, 710–711 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3446

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