Abstract
Optical cavities that contain mobile elements are currently attracting much interest for cooling the mechanical degrees of freedom of macroscopic objects. We discuss two scenarios where light-induced changes of the mechanical damping are opening up perspectives for quantum-mechanical regimes.
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