Cooling massive objects to the quantum ground state
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Ground state cooling of massive mechanical objects remains a difficult task restricted by the unresolved mechanical sidebands. Now researchers have proposed an optomechanically-induced-transparency cooling scheme to achieve ground state cooling of mechanical motion without the resolved sideband condition, capable of cooling massive objects to the quantum ground state. This provides a route for quantum manipulation of massive macroscopic devices and high-precision measurements.