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Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science - Materials Science

PhD Comics Features Professor Painter's Research

Professor Oskar Painter

Professor Oskar Painter

June 17, 2013

The research of Oskar J. Painter, Professor of Applied Physics, and his student Amir Safavi-Naeini is featured in an animated videos by Jorge Cham of PhD Comics.  The video is called A Quantum Experiment and is about cooling an oscillator to its ground state. Read Jorge's comments about the project in his post on the IQIM blog. [watch the video] [Caltech release about the research]

Tags: APhMS energy research highlights Oskar Painter Amir Safavi-Naeini


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