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Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity
In cavity optomechanics, light is used to control mechanical motion. A central goal of the field is achieving single-photon strong coupling, which would enable the creation of quantum superposition states of motion. Reaching this limit requires significant improvements in optomechanical coupling and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26450772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9491 |
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author | Yuan, Mingyun Singh, Vibhor Blanter, Yaroslav M. Steele, Gary A. |
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description | In cavity optomechanics, light is used to control mechanical motion. A central goal of the field is achieving single-photon strong coupling, which would enable the creation of quantum superposition states of motion. Reaching this limit requires significant improvements in optomechanical coupling and cavity coherence. Here we introduce an optomechanical architecture consisting of a silicon nitride membrane coupled to a three-dimensional superconducting microwave cavity. Exploiting their large quality factors, we achieve an optomechanical cooperativity of 146,000 and perform sideband cooling of the kilohertz-frequency membrane motion to 34±5 μK, the lowest mechanical mode temperature reported to date. The achieved cooling is limited only by classical noise of the signal generator, and should extend deep into the ground state with superconducting filters. Our results suggest that this realization of optomechanics has the potential to reach the regimes of ultra-large cooperativity and single-photon strong coupling, opening up a new generation of experiments. |
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spelling | pubmed-46337132015-11-25 Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity Yuan, Mingyun Singh, Vibhor Blanter, Yaroslav M. Steele, Gary A. Nat Commun Article In cavity optomechanics, light is used to control mechanical motion. A central goal of the field is achieving single-photon strong coupling, which would enable the creation of quantum superposition states of motion. Reaching this limit requires significant improvements in optomechanical coupling and cavity coherence. Here we introduce an optomechanical architecture consisting of a silicon nitride membrane coupled to a three-dimensional superconducting microwave cavity. Exploiting their large quality factors, we achieve an optomechanical cooperativity of 146,000 and perform sideband cooling of the kilohertz-frequency membrane motion to 34±5 μK, the lowest mechanical mode temperature reported to date. The achieved cooling is limited only by classical noise of the signal generator, and should extend deep into the ground state with superconducting filters. Our results suggest that this realization of optomechanics has the potential to reach the regimes of ultra-large cooperativity and single-photon strong coupling, opening up a new generation of experiments. Nature Pub. Group 2015-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4633713/ /pubmed/26450772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9491 Text en Copyright © 2015, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Yuan, Mingyun Singh, Vibhor Blanter, Yaroslav M. Steele, Gary A. Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title | Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title_full | Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title_fullStr | Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title_full_unstemmed | Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title_short | Large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
title_sort | large cooperativity and microkelvin cooling with a three-dimensional optomechanical cavity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26450772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9491 |
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