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Nature Physics 4, 513 - 514 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1006

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Techniques and instrumentation | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Nanotechnology

Optomechanics: Push towards the quantum limit

Florian Marquardt1

  1. Florian Marquardt is in the Department of Physics, the Center for NanoScience and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany.
    e-mail: Florian.Marquardt@physik.lmu.de


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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