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SUBMITTER: MacQuarrie ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5303879 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
MacQuarrie E R ER Otten M M Gray S K SK Fuchs G D GD
Nature communications 20170206
Cooling a mechanical resonator mode to a sub-thermal state has been a long-standing challenge in physics. This pursuit has recently found traction in the field of optomechanics in which a mechanical mode is coupled to an optical cavity. An alternate method is to couple the resonator to a well-controlled two-level system. Here we propose a protocol to dissipatively cool a room temperature mechanical resonator using a nitrogen-vacancy centre ensemble. The spin ensemble is coupled to the resonator ...[more]