Optomechanics with levitated particles

J Millen, TS Monteiro, R Pettit… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

Quantum rotations of nanoparticles

BA Stickler, K Hornberger, MS Kim - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Rotations of microscale rigid bodies exhibit pronounced quantum phenomena that do not
exist for their centre-of-mass motion. By levitating nanoparticles in ultra-high vacuum …

Enhanced tripartite interactions in spin-magnon-mechanical hybrid systems

XL Hei, PB Li, XF Pan, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Coherent tripartite interactions among degrees of freedom of completely different nature are
instrumental for quantum information and simulation technologies, but they are generally …

Motional dynamical decoupling for interferometry with macroscopic particles

JS Pedernales, GW Morley, MB Plenio - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We extend the concept of dynamical decoupling from spin to mechanical degrees of
freedom of macroscopic objects, for application in interferometry. In this manner, the …

Single-spin magnetomechanics with levitated micromagnets

J Gieseler, A Kabcenell, E Rosenfeld, JD Schaefer… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate a new mechanical transduction platform for individual spin qubits. In our
approach, single micromagnets are trapped using a type-II superconductor in proximity of …

Spin-cooling of the motion of a trapped diamond

T Delord, P Huillery, L Nicolas, G Hétet - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in
quantum physics research. In particular, strong coupling between individual quantum …

Quantum experiments with microscale particles

J Millen, BA Stickler - Contemporary Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum theory is incredibly successful, explaining the microscopic world with great
accuracy, from the behaviour of subatomic particles to chemical reactions to solid-state …

Superconducting microsphere magnetically levitated in an anharmonic potential with integrated magnetic readout

M Gutierrez Latorre, G Higgins, A Paradkar, T Bauch… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles offer a promising path to quantum
experiments with picogram to microgram objects. In this work, we levitate a 700 ng∼ 10 17 …

Langevin approach to quantum optics with molecules

M Reitz, C Sommer, C Genes - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We investigate the interaction between light and molecular systems modeled as quantum
emitters coupled to a multitude of vibrational modes via a Holstein-type interaction. We …

Motion control and optical interrogation of a levitating single nitrogen vacancy in vacuum

GP Conangla, AW Schell, RA Rica, R Quidant - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Levitation optomechanics exploits the unique mechanical properties of trapped nano-
objects in vacuum to address some of the limitations of clamped nanomechanical …