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Quantum Optomechanics and Nanomechanics - Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 105, August 2015 (Hardcover)
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Quantum Optomechanics and Nanomechanics - Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 105, August 2015 (Hardcover)
Series: Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School, 105
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The Les Houches Summer School in August 2015 covered the emerging
fields of cavity optomechanics and quantum nanomechanics.
Optomechanics is flourishing and its concepts and techniques are
now applied to a wide range of topics. Modern quantum optomechanics
was born in the late 1970s in the framework of gravitational wave
interferometry, with an initial focus on the quantum limits of
displacement measurements. Carlton Caves, Vladimir Braginsky, and
others realized that the sensitivity of the anticipated large-scale
gravitational-wave interferometers (GWI) was fundamentally limited
by the quantum fluctuations of the measurement laser beam. After
tremendous experimental progress, the sensitivity of the upcoming
next generation of GWI will effectively be limited by quantum
noise. In this way, quantum-optomechanical effects will directly
affect the operation of what is arguably the world's most
impressive precision experiment. However, optomechanics has also
gained a life of its own with a focus on the quantum aspects of
moving mirrors. Laser light can be used to cool mechanical
resonators well below the temperature of its environment. After
proof-of-principle demonstrations of this cooling in 2006, a number
of systems were used as the field gradually merged with its
condensed matter cousin (nanomechanical systems) to try to reach
the mechanical quantum ground state, eventually demonstrated in
2010 by pure cryogenic techniques and just one year later by a
combination of cryogenic and radiation-pressure cooling. The book
covers all aspects - historical, theoretical, experimental - of the
field, with its applications to quantum measurement, foundations of
quantum mechanics and quantum information. It is an essential read
for any new researcher in the field.
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