Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state
B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,Rana X. Adhikari,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,G. S. Allen,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,P. Armor,Yoichi Aso,S. M. Aston,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,S. W. Ballmer,H. Bantilan,B. C. Barish,C. Barker,D. Barker,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,M. A. Barton,M. Bastarrika,K. Bayer,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,Rahul Biswas,E. Black,Kent Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,T. P. Bodiya,L. Bogue,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,M. Brinkmann,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,G. Brunet,A. Bullington,Alessandra Buonanno,O. Burmeister,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Jordan Camp,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,L. Cardenas,T. Casebolt,Giuseppe Castaldi,Carlos Cepeda,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,Shourov Chatterji,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,Yi Chen,Nelson Christensen,D. E. Clark,J. Clark,Thomas Cokelaer,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,D. C. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,R. M. Cutler,J. Dalrymple,S. L. Danilishin,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,Gavin Davies,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,M. Degree,V. Dergachev,Shantanu Desai,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,Marco Aurelio Diaz,J. Dickson,A. Dietz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,E. E. Doomes,R. W. P. Drever,I. Duke,J. C. Dumas,R. J. Dupuis,John G. Dwyer,C. Echols,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,E. Espinoza,T. Etzel,Timothy Evans,Stephen Fairhurst,Yaohui Fan,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,Martin M. Fejer,Lee Samuel Finn,K. Flasch,N. Fotopoulos,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Tom Fricke,Tom Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,J. Garofoli,I. Gholami,J. A. Giaime,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,Keisuke Goda,Evan Goetz,Lisa M. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,S. Gossler,R. Gouaty,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,Malcolm B. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,F. Grimaldi,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Boris Hage,J. M. Hallam,D. Hammer,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,Kazuhiro Hayama,T. Hayler,J. Heefner,Ik Siong Heng,M. Hennessy,A. Heptonstall,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,E. Hirose,D. Hoak,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,S. H. Huttner,D. R. Ingram,M. Ito,A. Ivanov,B. Johnson,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,Gareth Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kamat,Jonah Kanner,D. Kasprzyk,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,F. Kawazoe,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,F. Ya. Khalili,Rubab Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,Chonghoon Kim,P. J. King,J. S. Kisse,S. Klimenko,K. Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Ravi Kumar Kopparapu,D. B. Kozak,I. Kozhevatov,Badri Krishnan,P. Kwee,Ping Koy Lam,Michael Landry,M. M. Lang,B. Lantz,Albert Lazzarini,M. Lei,Nick Leindecker,V. Leonhardt,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,H. Lin,P. E. Lindquist,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,M. Lormand,P. Lu,M. J. Lubinski,Antonio Lucianetti,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Vuk Mandic,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,Jared Markowitz,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,F. Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,Martin P McHugh,G. McIntyre,G. McIvor,D. J. A. McKechan,Kirk McKenzie,T. Meier,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,D. Meyers,Haixing Miao,J. S. Miller,J. S. Miller,J. Minelli,Subhasish Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Osamu Miyakawa,B. Moe,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,H. Mukhopadhyay,H. Müller-Ebhardt,Jesper Munch,P. G. Murray,E. Myers,J. Myers,T. Nash,John Nelson,G. Newton,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,Kenji Numata,J. O'Dell,G. H. Ogin,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,V. Parameshwaraiah,P. Patel,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,A. Perreca,T. Petrie,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,H. J. Pletsch,M. V. Plissi,Fabio Postiglione,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,Reinhard Prix,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,N. Rainer,M. Rakhmanov,M. Ramsunder,H. Rehbein,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,R. Riesen,K. Riles,B. Rivera,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,C. Robinson,Emma L. Robinson,S. Roddy,A. Rodriguez,A. M. Rogan,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. H. Romie,Roger K. Route,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,L. Ruet,Pamela J. Russell,Kevin M. Ryan,S. Sakata,M. Samidi,L. Sancho De La Jordana,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,S. Saraf,P. Sarin,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Shuichi Sato,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,P. Savov,Sascha Schediwy,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,Susan M. Scott,Antony C. Searle,B. Sears,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,Supriyo Sinha,A. M. Sintes,A. M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,Kentaro Somiya,B. Sorazu,Leo C. Stein,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,D. M. Strom,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,Ke Sun,M. Sung,P. J. Sutton,Hirotaka Takahashi,David B. Tanner,R. Taylor,J. Thacker,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,A. Thüring,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,Miquel Trias,W. Tyler,D. Ugolini,J. Ulmen,Karel E. Urbanek,H. Vahlbruch,C. Van Den Broeck,M. V. van der Sluys,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,A. E. Villar,C. Vorvick,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,Samuel J. Waldman,L. Wallace,H. Ward,R. L. Ward,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,S. Wen,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,B. F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,H. R. Williams,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,I. Wilmut,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,J. Worden,W. Wu,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Zewu Yan,Sanichiro Yoshida,Michele Zanolin,J. Zhang,L. 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In this paper, the resonant frequency of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode was dynamically shifted to lie within this optimal band, where its effective temperature falls as low as 1.4 μK and its occupation number reaches about 200 quanta.Abstract:
We introduce a novel cooling technique capable of approaching the quantum ground state of a kilogram-scale system—an interferometric gravitational wave detector. The detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) operate within a factor of 10 of the standard quantum limit (SQL), providing a displacement sensitivity of 10−18 m in a 100 Hz band centered on 150 Hz. With a new feedback strategy, we dynamically shift the resonant frequency of a 2.7 kg pendulum mode to lie within this optimal band, where its effective temperature falls as low as 1.4 μK, and its occupation number reaches about 200 quanta. This work shows how the exquisite sensitivity necessary to detect gravitational waves can be made available to probe the validity of quantum mechanics on an enormous mass scale.read more
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TL;DR: The field of cavity optomechanics explores the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nano-or micromechanical motion as mentioned in this paper, which explores the interactions between optical cavities and mechanical resonators.
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Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light
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A sub-40-mHz-linewidth laser based on a silicon single-crystal optical cavity
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Squeezed light from a silicon micromechanical resonator
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TL;DR: The continuous position measurement of a solid-state, optomechanical system fabricated from a silicon microchip and comprising a micromechanical resonator coupled to a nanophotonic cavity is described, observing squeezing of the reflected light’s fluctuation spectrum at a level 4.5 ± 0.2 per cent below that of vacuum noise.
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LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
Alex Abramovici,W. E. Althouse,R. W. P. Drever,Yekta Gursel,Seiji Kawamura,F. J. Raab,David H. Shoemaker,L. Sievers,Robert Spero,Kip S. Thorne,R. E. Vogt,Rainer Weiss,S. E. Whitcomb,Michael E Zucker +13 more
TL;DR: The goal of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project is to detect and study astrophysical gravitational waves and use data from them for research in physics and astronomy.
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Cavity Optomechanics: Back-Action at the Mesoscale
TL;DR: Recent experiments have reached a regime where the back-action of photons caused by radiation pressure can influence the optomechanical dynamics, giving rise to a host of long-anticipated phenomena.
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Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane.
Jeff D. Thompson,Benjamin M. Zwickl,Andrew Jayich,Florian Marquardt,Steven Girvin,Jack Harris +5 more
TL;DR: A cavity which is detuned by the motion of a 50-nm-thick dielectric membrane placed between two macroscopic, rigid, high-finesse mirrors is demonstrated, which segregates optical and mechanical functionality to physically distinct structures and avoids compromising either.
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Radiation-pressure cooling and optomechanical instability of a micromirror
TL;DR: An experiment where a micromechanical resonator is used as a mirror in a very high-finesse optical cavity, and its displacements are monitored with unprecedented sensitivity, and a radiation-pressure-induced instability of the resonators is observed.