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Continous Measurement of the Energy Eigenstates of a Nanomechanical Resonator without a Non-Demolition Probe

Kurt Jacobs, Pavel Lougovski, Miles Blencowe

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0607102

Abstract

We show that it is possible to perform a continuous measurement that continually projects a nano-resonator into its energy eigenstates by employing a linear coupling with a two-state system. This technique makes it possible to perform a measurement that exposes the quantum nature of the resonator by coupling it to a Cooper-pair Box and a superconducting transmission-line resonator.

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