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Push towards the quantum limit

Optomechanical set-ups use radiation pressure to manipulate macroscopic mechanical objects. Two experiments transfer this concept to the fields of superconducting microwave circuits and cold-atom physics.

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Figure 1: Approaches to observing mechanical effects of radiation.

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Marquardt, F. Push towards the quantum limit. Nature Phys 4, 513–514 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1006

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