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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 6, 期 3, 页码 213-217出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS1479
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- Cornell University
- FQXi
- National Science Foundation
When carrying out ultrasensitive continuous measurements of position, one must ultimately confront the fundamental effects of detection back-action. Back-action forces set a lower bound on the uncertainty in the measured position, the 'standard quantum limit' (SQL). Recent measurements of nano-and micromechanical resonators are rapidly approaching this limit. Making measurements with sensitivities surpassing the SQL will require a new kind of approach: back-action-evading (BAE), quantum non-demolition measurement techniques. Here we realize a BAE measurement based on the parametric coupling between a nanomechanical and a microwave resonator. We demonstrate for the first time BAE detection of a single quadrature of motion with sensitivity four times the quantum zero-point motion of the mechanical resonator. We identify a limiting parametric instability inherent in BAE measurement, and describe how to improve the technique to surpass the SQL and permit the formation of squeezed states of motion.
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