Phonon counting and intensity interferometry of a nanomechanical resonator

Justin D. Cohen, Seán M. Meenehan, Gregory S. MacCabe, Simon Gröblacher, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw and Oskar Painter ()
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Justin D. Cohen: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Seán M. Meenehan: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Gregory S. MacCabe: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Simon Gröblacher: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Amir H. Safavi-Naeini: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Francesco Marsili: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Matthew D. Shaw: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Oskar Painter: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

Nature, 2015, vol. 520, issue 7548, 522-525

Abstract: A silicon nanometre-scale mechanical resonator, patterned to couple optical and mechanical resonances, is found to emit photons when optically pumped; photon emission corresponds directly to phonon emission, enabling the phonons to be counted.

Date: 2015
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