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Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane by Thompson, J. D., Zwickl, B. M., Jayich, A. M., Marquardt, Florian, Girvin, S. M., Harris, J. G. E.

“…Cool quantum science In recent years micromechanical devices have been developed that can strongly couple to light, by integrating them within optical…”
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Strong and tunable nonlinear optomechanical coupling in a low-loss system by Zwickl, B. M, Sankey, J. C, Jayich, A. M, Harris, J. G. E, Yang, C

“…A major goal in optomechanics is to observe and control quantum behaviour in a system consisting of a mechanical resonator coupled to an optical cavity. Work…”
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Dispersive optomechanics: a membrane inside a cavity by Jayich, A M, Sankey, J C, Zwickl, B M, Yang, C, Thompson, J D, Girvin, S M, Clerk, A A, Marquardt, F, Harris, J G E

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Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane by Thompson, J. D, Zwickl, B. M, Jayich, A. M, Marquardt, Florian, Girvin, S. M, Harris, J. G. E

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High quality mechanical and optical properties of commercial silicon nitride membranes by Zwickl, B. M., Shanks, W. E., Jayich, A. M., Yang, C., Bleszynski Jayich, A. C., Thompson, J. D., Harris, J. G. E.

“…We have measured the optical and mechanical loss of commercial silicon nitride membranes. We find that 50 nm thick, 1 mm 2 membranes have mechanical Q > 10 6…”
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Stable, mode-matched, medium-finesse optical cavity incorporating a microcantilever mirror: optical characterization and laser cooling by Harris, J G E, Zwickl, B M, Jayich, A M

“…A stable optical resonator has been built using a 30-microm-wide, metal-coated microcantilever as one mirror. The second mirror was a 12.7-mm-diameter concave…”
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Observability of radiation pressure shot noise in optomechanical systems by Borkje, K, Nunnenkamp, A, Zwickl, B. M, Yang, C, Harris, J. G. E, Girvin, S. M

“…Phys. Rev. A 82, 013818 (2010) We present a theoretical study of an experiment designed to detect radiation pressure shot noise in an optomechanical system…”
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Erratum: Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane by Thompson, J. D., Zwickl, B. M., Jayich, A. M., Marquardt, Florian, Girvin, S. M., Harris, J. G. E.

“…Nature 452, 72–72 (2008) In the print and HTML versions of this Letter, Fig. 2b was printed incorrectly. The PDF version published online is correct. The…”
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Strong dispersive coupling of a high finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane by Thompson, J. D, Zwickl, B. M, Jayich, A. M, Marquardt, Florian, Girvin, S. M, Harris, J. G. E

“…Macroscopic mechanical objects and electromagnetic degrees of freedom couple to each other via radiation pressure. Optomechanical systems with sufficiently…”
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Dispersive optomechanics: a membrane inside a cavity by Jayich, A. M, Sankey, J. C, Zwickl, B. M, Yang, C, Thompson, J. D, Girvin, S. M, Clerk, A. A, Marquardt, F, Harris, J. G. E

“…We present the results of theoretical and experimental studies of dispersively coupled (or "membrane in the middle") optomechanical systems. We calculate the…”
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High quality mechanical and optical properties of commercial silicon nitride membranes by Zwickl, B. M, Shanks, W. E, Jayich, A. M, Yang, C, Jayich, A. C. Bleszynski, Thompson, J. D, Harris, J. G. E

“…We have measured the optical and mechanical loss of commercial silicon nitride membranes. We find that 50 nm-thick, 1 mm^2 membranes have mechanical Q > 10^6…”
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Observability of radiation-pressure shot noise in optomechanical systems by Børkje, K., Nunnenkamp, A., Zwickl, B. M., Yang, C., Harris, J. G. E., Girvin, S. M.

“…We present a theoretical study of an experiment designed to detect radiation-pressure shot noise in an optomechanical system. Our model consists of a…”
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Stable, mode-matched, medium-finesse optical cavity incorporating a microcantilever mirror by Harris, J. G. E, Zwickl, B. M, Jayich, A. M

“…A stable optical resonator has been built using a 30 micrometer-wide, metal-coated microcantilever as one mirror. The second mirror was a 12.7 mm-diameter…”
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Optomechanical effects in a dispersively coupled high finesse cavity and micromechanical membrane by Zwickl, B.M., Thompson, J.E., Cheng Yang, Jayich, A.E., Marquardt, F., Girvin, S.M., Harris, J.G.E.

“…By dispersively coupling a dielectric membrane to an optical cavity, we laser-cooled it from 294 K to 6.82 mK. Further, the cavity couples to the square of the…”
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