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Cooling a micromechanical resonator to its ground state by measurement and feedback

Bergenfeldt, Christian LU and Molmer, Klaus (2009) In Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) 80(4).
Abstract
We present an analysis of the cooling of a micromechanical resonator by means of measurement and feedback. The measurements are performed via the coupling to a Cooper-pair box, and although the coupling does not lead to net cooling, the extraction of information and hence entropy from the system leads to a pure quantum state. Under suitable circumstances, the states become very close to coherent states, conditioned on the measurement record, and can hence be displaced to the oscillator ground state.
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resonators, micromechanical, ground states, entropy, cooling, Cooper pairs, quantum theory
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Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
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80
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4
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American Physical Society
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1050-2947
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10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043838
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English
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  series       = {{Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)}},
  title        = {{Cooling a micromechanical resonator to its ground state by measurement and feedback}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043838}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043838}},
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