{"id":107511,"date":"2020-05-23T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/laser-cooling-a-nanomechanical-oscillator-close-to-its-ground-state"},"modified":"2020-05-23T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:06:01","slug":"laser-cooling-a-nanomechanical-oscillator-close-to-its-ground-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/laser-cooling-a-nanomechanical-oscillator-close-to-its-ground-state","title":{"rendered":"Laser cooling a nanomechanical oscillator close to its ground state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-cooling-a-nanomechanical-oscillator-close-to-its-ground-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and IBM Research Europe recently demonstrated the laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator down to its zero-point energy (i.e., the point at which it contains a minimum amount of energy). Their successful demonstration, featured in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, could have important implications for the development quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and IBM Research Europe recently demonstrated the laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator down to its zero-point energy (i.e., the point at which it contains a minimum amount of energy). Their successful demonstration, featured in Physical Review Letters, could have important implications for the development [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}