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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Superconducting microwave cavities as quantum nanomechanical transducers

Gerard J Milburn, M. J. Woolley, Andrew C. Doherty, Keith Schwab

Published May 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show how a superconducting coplanar microwave cavity can be used as a quantum limited displacement transducer for a nanomechanical resonator by demonstrating that nanomechanical squeezing can be detected in the cavity field.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2008.4551955

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