Coupled ion-nanomechanical systems.
We study ions in a nanotrap, where the electrodes are nanomechanical resonators. The ions play the role of a quantum optical system that acts as a probe and control, and allows entanglement with or between nanomechanical resonators.
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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