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Quantum optomechanics and nanomechanics / Pierre-François Cohadon, Jack Harris, Florian Marquardt, Leticia Cugliandolo.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Ecole d'été de physique théorique (Les Houches, Haute-Savoie France) (105th : 2015), creator.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quantum theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (475 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- The Les Houches Summer School in August 2015 covered the emerging fields of cavity optomechanics and quantum nanomechanics. Optomechanics is flourishing and its concepts and techniques are now applied to a wide range of topics. Modern quantum optomechanics was born in the late 1970s in the framework of gravitational wave interferometry, with an initial focus on the quantum limits of displacement measurements. Carlton Caves, Vladimir Braginsky, and others realized that the sensitivity of the anticipated large-scale gravitational-wave interferometers (GWI) was fundamentally limited by the quantum fluctuations of the measurement laser beam. After tremendous experimental progress, the sensitivity of the upcoming next generation of GWI will effectively be limited by quantum noise.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 30, 2020).
- Conference proceedings.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-186692-X
- 0-19-256330-0
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