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20022019
most citedObservation of Radiation Pressure Shot Noise on a Macroscopic Object

407 citations · 2k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2019★ 88 cited

Beyond Spontaneous Emission: Giant Atom Bounded in Continuum

Shangjie Guo, Yidan Wang, Thomas Purdy +1

The quantum coupling of individual superconducting qubits to microwave photons leads to remarkable experimental opportunities. Here we consider the phononic case where the qubit is…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 18 cited

Detecting Acoustic Blackbody Radiation with an Optomechanical Antenna

Robinjeet Singh, Thomas P. Purdy

Nanomechanical systems are generally embedded in a macroscopic environment where the sources of thermal noise are difficult to pinpoint. We engineer a silicon nitride membrane opto…

physics.ins-det2018★ 43 cited

Quantum-based vacuum metrology at NIST

Julia Scherschligt, James A. Fedchak, Zeeshan Ahmed +10

The measurement science in realizing and disseminating the unit for pressure in the International System of Units (SI), the pascal (Pa), has been the subject of much interest at th…

physics.optics2017★ 45 cited

Towards Replacing Resistance Thermometry with Photonic Thermometry

Nikolai Klimov, Thomas Purdy, Zeeshan Ahmed

Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements that has been painstakingly developed over the last century. However, fundamental limits to…

quant-ph2016★ 32 cited

Cooling a harmonic oscillator by optomechanical modification of its bath

Xunnong Xu, Thomas Purdy, Jacob M. Taylor

Optomechanical systems show tremendous promise for high sensitivity sensing of forces and modification of mechanical properties via light. For example, similar to neutral atoms and…

quant-ph2016★ 8 cited

Observation of Optomechanical Quantum Correlations at Room Temperature

T. P. Purdy, K. E. Grutter, K. Srinivasan +1

By shining laser light through a nanomechanical beam, we measure the beam's thermally driven vibrations and perturb its motion with optical forces at a level dictated by the Heisen…