Cooling A "Massive" Solid-State Nanoparticle into Its Quantum Ground State (5 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Cooling A "Massive" Solid-State Nanoparticle into Its Quantum Ground State (5 of 5)

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Researchers cooled a levitated nanoparticle to the quantum groundstate for the first time. This work was made possible by the recent breakthrough application of coherent scattering in the field of cavity optomechanics. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 31 Jan. issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by U. Deli? at University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, and colleagues was titled, "Cooling of a levitated nanoparticle to the motional quantum ground state."

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[Credit: Kahan Dare, Lorenzo Magrini, Yuriy Coroli, University of Vienna]

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