Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium | Quantum optomechanics - Mechanical motion in the quantum regime

by Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna)

Friday 20 Oct 2017, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Berlin

CFEL, Bldg. 99 (DESY Hamburg)

The quantum optical control of solid-state mechanical devices, quantum optomechanics, has emerged as a new frontier of light-matter interaction. Devices currently under investigation cover a mass range of more than 17 orders of magnitude - from nanomechanical waveguides to macroscopic mirrors of gravitational wave detectors. Today, 10 years after the first demonstrations of laser cooling of micromechanical resonators, the quantum regime of nano- and micromechanical motion is firmly established. This opens fascinating perspectives both for applications and for unique tests of the foundations of quantum physics, eventually at its interface with gravity.