Cooling a micromechanical resonator by quantum back-action from a noisy qubit
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- 6 October 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 80 (14), 144508
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.80.144508
Abstract
We study the role of qubit dephasing in cooling a mechanical resonator by quantum back-action. With a superconducting flux qubit as a specific example, we show that ground-state cooling of a mechanical resonator can only be realized if the qubit dephasing rate is sufficiently low.Keywords
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