Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-4-2009

Publication Title

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We consider a quantum model of a nanomechanical flexing beam resonator interacting with a bath comprising a few damped tunneling two-level systems. In contrast with a resonator interacting bilinearly with an ohmic free oscillator bath (modeling clamping loss, for example), the mechanical resonator damping is amplitude dependent, while the decoherence of quantum superpositions of mechanical position states depends only weakly on their spatial separation.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.174103

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