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David Mason, Massimiliano Rossi, Albert Schließer +1 more

Using a trick inspired by noise-cancellation headphones, we have been able to control the motion of a millimeter-sized drum at the “quantum level”, even though it is big enough to see with our bare eyes. - submission by David Mason, Massimiliano Rossi, Albert Schliesser

O. Costa de Beauregard

J. F. Gille

1. Circuit cavity electromechanics in the strong coupling regime Authors: J.D. Teufel, D. Li, M.S. Allman, K. Cicak, A.J. Sirois, J.D. Whittaker, and R.W. Simmonds arXiv:1011.3067 2. Optomechanically Induced Transparency Authors: Stefan Weis, Remi Riviere, Samuel Deleglise, Emanuel Gavartin, Olivier Arcizet, Albert Schliesser, and Tobias J. Kippenberg Science 330, 1520 (2010) Recommended and Commentary by […]

Mechanical devices that exploit micro/nano-fabrication as well as integration into other ultrasensitive transducers – optical, electronic, or atomic – have opened intriguing new avenues of research. These devices provide new means for cooling, signal processing, and sensing of electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields. With many of these systems now entering the quantum regime, their possible use in quantum engineering – for state storage, transduction and conversion – is explored. Beyond engineering, mechanical oscillators also provide especially clear realizations of quantum measurement processes, and may ultimately enable new insights into fundamental limits arising from decoherence of these unprecedentedly massive quantum objects. Picture credits: Albert Schliesser/EPFL

E. T. Jaynes