Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object

The motion of a mechanical object, even a human-sized object, should be governed by the rules of quantum mechanics. Coaxing them into a quantum state is, however, difficult because the thermal environment masks any quantum signature of the object’s motion. The thermal environment also masks the effe...

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Main Authors: Whittle, Chris, Hall, Evan D., Dwyer, Sheila, Mavalvala, Nergis, Sudhir, Vivishek, Abbott, R., Ananyeva, A., Austin, C., Barsotti, L., Betzwieser, J., Blair, C. D., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. D., Buikema, A., Cahillane, C., Driggers, J. C., Effler, A., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Hardwick, T., Kasprzack, M., Kawabe, K., Kijbunchoo, N., Kissel, J. S., Mansell, G. L., Matichard, F., McCuller, L., McRae, T., Mullavey, A., Pele, A., Schofield, R. M. S., Sigg, D., Tse, M., Vajente, G., Vander-Hyde, D. C., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Adams, C., Adhikari, R. X., Appert, S., Arai, K., Areeda, J. S., Asali, Y., Aston, S. M., Baer, A. M., Ball, M., Ballmer, S. W., Banagiri, S., Barker, D., Bartlett, J., Berger, B. K., Bhattacharjee, D., Billingsley, G., Biscans, S., Blair, R. M., Bode, N., Booker, P., Bork, R., Bramley, A., Cannon, K. C., Chen, X., Ciobanu, A. A., Clara, F., Compton, C. M., Cooper, S. J., Corley, K. R., Countryman, S. T., Covas, P. B., Coyne, D. C., Datrier, L. E. H., Davis, D., Di Fronzo, C., Dooley, K. L., Dupej, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Feicht, J., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Godwin, P., Goetz, E., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, R., Green, A. C., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hanks, J., Hanson, J., Hasskew, R. K., Heintze, M. C., Helmling-Cornell, A. F., Holland, N. A., Jones, J. D., Kandhasamy, S., Karki, S., King, P. J., Kumar, Rahul, Landry, M., Lane, B. B., Lantz, B., Laxen, M., Lecoeuche, Y. K., Leviton, J., Liu, J., Lormand, M., Lundgren, A. P., Macas, R., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Martynov, D. V., Mason, K., Massinger, T. J., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McIver, J., Mendell, G., Merfeld, K., Merilh, E. L., Meylahn, F., Mistry, T., Mittleman, R., Moreno, G., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mozzon, S., Nelson, T. J. N., Nguyen, P., Nuttall, L. K., Oberling, J., Oram, Richard J., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Overmier, H., Palamos, J. R., Parker, W., Payne, E., Penhorwood, R., Perez, C. J., Pirello, M., Radkins, H., Ramirez, K. E., Richardson, J. W., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Rollins, J. G., Romel, C. L., Romie, J. H., Ross, M. P., Ryan, K., Sadecki, T., Sanchez, E. J., Sanchez, L. E., Saravanan, T. R., Savage, R. L., Schaetz, D., Schnabel, R., Schwartz, E., Sellers, D., Shaffer, T., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, J. R., Soni, S., Sorazu, B., Spencer, A. P., Strain, K. A., Sun, L., Szczepańczyk, M. J., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Toland, K., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Urban, A. L., Valdes, G., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Venugopalan, G., Viets, A. D., Vo, T., Vorvick, C., Wade, M., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Weaver, B., Weiss, R., Willke, B., Wipf, C. C., Xiao, L., Yamamoto, H., Zhang, L., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J.
Other Authors: LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139727

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