Submission + - Physicists reveal new way of cooling large objects with light (physicsworld.com)
loftarasa writes: Physics World reportsthat a team of scientists in Germany and Russia has succesfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept experiment that combines the traditional "dispersive coupling" method for cooling objects with light with a new method called "dissipative coupling", which employs quantum noise. If ultimately proven succesful, this technique could be used, for example, for performing quantum experiments on a macro scale, and possibly for creating gravitational-wave detectors.