Feedback cooling of a nanomechanical resonator

Asa S. Hopkins; K. Jacobs; Salman Habib; K. Schwab

DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.68.235328

Corpus ID: 31194632

Feedback cooling of a nanomechanical resonator

@article{Hopkins2003FeedbackCO,
  title={Feedback cooling of a nanomechanical resonator},
  author={Asa S. Hopkins and K. Jacobs and Salman Habib and K. Schwab},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2003},
  volume={68},
  pages={235328}
}

Asa S. Hopkins, K. Jacobs, +1 author K. Schwab

Published 2003

Physics

Physical Review B

Cooled, low-loss nanomechanical resonators offer the prospect of directly observing the quantum dynamics of mesoscopic systems. However, the present state of the art requires cooling down to the milliKelvin regime in order to observe quantum effects. Here we present an active feedback strategy based on continuous observation of the resonator position for the purpose of obtaining these low temperatures. In addition, we apply this to an experimentally realizable configuration, where the position… CONTINUE READING

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