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Nature Physics 5, 458 - 460 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1324
Subject Category: Electronics, photonics and device physics
Optomechanics: Photons refrigerating phonons
Andrew Cleland1
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Andrew Cleland is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
e-mail: anc@physics.ucsb.edu
Abstract
Optomechanics is a promising route towards the observation of quantum effects in relatively large structures. Three papers, each discussing a different implementation, now combine optical sideband and cryogenic cooling to refrigerate mechanical resonators to fewer than 60 phonons.
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