Mechanical resonators are widely used in sensors, transducers and optomechanical
systems, where mechanical dissipation sets the ultimate limit to performance. Over the past …

For decades, mechanical resonators with high sensitivity have been realized using thin‐film
materials under high tensile loads. Although there are remarkable strides in achieving low …

High-aspect-ratio mechanical resonators are pivotal in precision sensing, from macroscopic
gravitational wave detectors to nanoscale acoustics. However, fabrication challenges and …

Squeezed light has long been used to enhance the precision of a single optomechanical
sensor. An emerging set of proposals seeks to use arrays of optomechanical sensors to …

The pursuit of room temperature quantum optomechanics with tethered nanomechanical
resonators faces stringent challenges owing to extraneous mechanical degrees of freedom …

Micromechanical and nanomechanical systems with exceptionally low dissipation rates are
enabling the next-generation technologies of ultrasensitive detectors and quantum …

We experimentally study the fundamental torsional mechanical mode of the nanofiber waist
of a tapered optical fiber. We find that this oscillator with a resonance frequency of f= 161.7 …

Milligram-scale mechanical oscillators hold potential for testing fundamental physical
phenomena on various fronts, including laboratory-scale effects at the interface of quantum …

We laser cool a centimeter-scale torsion pendulum to a temperature of 10 mK (average
occupancy of 6000 phonons) starting from room temperature (equivalent to $2\times 10^ 8 …

The optical lever is a centuries old and widely used detection technique employed in
applications ranging from consumer products and industrial sensors to precision force …