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Unique Cavity Demonstrates Highest Optomechanical Coupling

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Silicon nitride membrane may lead to better quantum mechanical studies.

Richard Gaughan

Photons are nearly ideal for investigating quantum phenomena: They are easy to generate and have well-defined states and straightforward interactions with matter. Quantum phenomena in macroscopic mechanical systems, on the contrary, are difficult to stimulate and to measure. Now scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, have developed an optical cavity design that demonstrates unprecedented ability to control the coupling between photons and a micromechanical structure. Quantum states of mechanical structures are...Read full article

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