BACKGROUND Levitation of large objects has become a widely used technique in science
and engineering, and the control of levitated nano-and micro-objects in vacuum has gained …

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 …

We report on rotating an optically trapped silica nanoparticle in vacuum by transferring spin
angular momentum of light to the particle's mechanical angular momentum. At sufficiently …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

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 …

An optically levitated nanoparticle in vacuum is a paradigm optomechanical system for
sensing and studying macroscopic quantum mechanics. While its center-of-mass motion has …

Optically levitated nano-objects in vacuum are among the highest quality mechanical
oscillators, and thus of great interest for force sensing, cavity quantum optomechanics, and …

Levitated optomechanics, a new experimental physics platform, holds promise for
fundamental science and quantum technological sensing applications. We demonstrate a …

The ability to manipulate small particles of matter using the forces of light, optical trapping,
forms the basis of a number of exciting research areas, spanning fundamental physics …

Nanomechanical devices have attracted the interest of a growing interdisciplinary research
community, since they can be used as highly sensitive transducers for various physical …