Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Quantum enhanced feedback cooling of a mechanical oscillator using nonclassical light

  • Clemens Schäfermeier,
  • Hugo Kerdoncuff,
  • Ulrich B. Hoff,
  • Hao Fu,
  • Alexander Huck,
  • Jan Bilek,
  • Glen I. Harris,
  • Warwick P. Bowen,
  • Tobias Gehring,
  • Ulrik L. Andersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13628
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Real-time quantum feedback control can be used to cool quantum systems to their motional ground states, but this has been so far achieved via classical probe fields. Here the authors report feedback cooling of a mechanical oscillator using a squeezed field, reporting higher cooling rate over classical light.