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arxiv: quant-ph/9802034 · v1 · submitted 1998-02-12 · 🪐 quant-ph

Optomechanical Cooling of a Macroscopic Oscillator by Homodyne Feedback

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keywords feedbackhomodyneoptomechanicaloscillatorquadratureapplyingbelowcooled
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We propose a simple optomechanical model in which a mechanical oscillator quadrature could be "cooled" well below its equilibrium temperature by applying a suitable feedback to drive the orthogonal quadrature by means of the homodyne current of the radiation field used to probe its position.

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