Coupled Ion-Nanomechanical Systems
Abstract
We study ions in a nanotrap, where the electrodes are nanomechanical resonators. The ions play the role of a quantum optical system that acts as a probe and control, and allows entanglement with or between nanomechanical resonators.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.266403
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0407020
- Bibcode:
- 2004PhRvL..93z6403T
- Keywords:
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- 85.85.+j;
- 03.65.-w;
- 32.80.Pj;
- 85.35.Kt;
- Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems and devices;
- Quantum mechanics;
- Optical cooling of atoms;
- trapping;
- Nanotube devices;
- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted for publication