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Towards Quantum Ground-State Cooling

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Chapter 7 discusses a scheme to perform 3D ground-state cooling of a optically trapped nanosphere with a single cavity, and the potential applications of cooled microspheres in vacuum.

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Li, T. (2013). Towards Quantum Ground-State Cooling. In: Fundamental Tests of Physics with Optically Trapped Microspheres. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6031-2_7

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