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Laser cooling of a Planck mass object close to the quantum ground state
Leonhard Neuhaus, Remi Metzdorff, Salim Zerkani +13
Quantum mechanics has so far not been tested for mechanical objects at the scale of the Planck mass . We present an experiment where a 1 m…
High-finesse Fabry-Perot cavities with bidimensional SiN photonic-crystal slabs
Xu Chen, Clément Chardin, Kevin Makles +9
Light scattering by a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab (PCS) can result in dramatic interference effects associated with Fano resonances. Such devices offer appealing alternat…
Macroscopic quantum resonators (MAQRO): 2015 Update
Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Arndt, Markus Aspelmeyer +49
Do the laws of quantum physics still hold for macroscopic objects - this is at the heart of Schrödinger's cat paradox - or do gravitation or yet unknown effects set a limit for mas…
Nonlinear mechanics with photonic crystal nanomembranes
T. Antoni, K. Makles, R. Braive +5
Optomechanical systems close to their quantum ground state and nonlinear nanoelectromechanical systems are two hot topics of current physics research. As high-reflectivity and low…
A micropillar for cavity optomechanics
A. G. Kuhn, M. Bahriz, O. Ducloux +8
We present a new micromechanical resonator designed for cavity optomechanics. We have used a micropillar geometry to obtain a high-frequency mechanical resonance with a low effecti…
Probing optomechanical correlations between two optical beams down to the quantum level
P. Verlot, A. Tavernarakis, T. Briant +2
Quantum effects of radiation pressure are expected to limit the sensitivity of second-generation gravitational-wave interferometers. Though ubiquitous, such effects are so weak tha…