Putting Mechanics into Quantum Mechanics
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 58 (7), 36-42
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2012461
Abstract
Nanoelectromechanical structures are starting to approach the ultimate quantum mechanical limits for detecting and exciting motion at the nanoscale. Nonclassical states of a mechanical resonator are also on the horizon.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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