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Phonon counting and intensity interferometry of a nanomechanical resonator

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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
    Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
    Present address: Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands.)

  • Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

    (Institute for Quantum Information and Matter and Thomas J. Watson Senior Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
    Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University)

  • 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)

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.

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  • Justin D. Cohen & Seán M. Meenehan & Gregory S. MacCabe & Simon Gröblacher & Amir H. Safavi-Naeini & Francesco Marsili & Matthew D. Shaw & Oskar Painter, 2015. "Phonon counting and intensity interferometry of a nanomechanical resonator," Nature, Nature, vol. 520(7548), pages 522-525, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:520:y:2015:i:7548:d:10.1038_nature14349
    DOI: 10.1038/nature14349
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    1. Renxian Gao & Yonglin He & Dumeng Zhang & Guoya Sun & Jia-Xing He & Jian-Feng Li & Ming-De Li & Zhilin Yang, 2023. "Gigahertz optoacoustic vibration in Sub-5 nm tip-supported nano-optomechanical metasurface," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-8, December.

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