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Ultralow-Dissipation Superfluid Micromechanical Resonator

F. Souris, X. Rojas^*, P. H. Kim, and J. P. Davis^†

Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada

^*Present address: Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom.
^†jdavis@ualberta.ca

Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 044008 – Published 17 April, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.044008

Abstract

Micro- and nanomechanical resonators with ultralow dissipation have great potential as useful quantum resources. The superfluid micromechanical resonators presented here possess several advantageous characteristics: straightforward thermalization, dissipationless flow, and in situ tunability. We identify and quantitatively model the various dissipation mechanisms in two resonators, one fabricated from borosilicate glass and one from single-crystal quartz. As the resonators are cryogenically cooled into the superfluid state, the damping from thermal effects and from the normal-fluid component are strongly suppressed. At our lowest temperatures, damping is limited solely by internal dissipation in the substrate materials, and the resonators reach quality factors of up to 913 000 at 13 mK. By lifting this limitation through substrate-material choice and resonator design, modeling suggests that the resonators could reach quality factors as high as $10^{8}$ at 100 mK, putting this architecture in an ideal position to harness mechanical quantum effects and to facilitate the study of superfluids in confined geometries.

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