Quantum nondemolition measurement of mechanical motion quanta

Although electro-and optomechanics has recently moved towards the quantum regime, the quantized energy spectrum of a mechanical oscillator has not been directly observed. Here Dellantonio et al. propose an electromechanical setup with a membrane resonator that could enable phonon number measurements...

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Main Authors: Luca Dellantonio, Oleksandr Kyriienko, Florian Marquardt, Anders S. Sørensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06070-y