Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum

C Gonzalez-Ballestero, M Aspelmeyer, L Novotny… - Science, 2021 - science.org
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 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 …

Real-time optimal quantum control of mechanical motion at room temperature

L Magrini, P Rosenzweig, C Bach… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to accurately control the dynamics of physical systems by measurement and
feedback is a pillar of modern engineering. Today, the increasing demand for applied …

A single-atom heat engine

J Roßnagel, ST Dawkins, KN Tolazzi, O Abah, E Lutz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work and generally involve a large
number of particles. We report the experimental realization of a single-atom heat engine. An …

Ultrasensitive torque detection with an optically levitated nanorotor

J Ahn, Z Xu, J Bang, P Ju, X Gao, T Li - Nature nanotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
Torque sensors such as the torsion balance enabled the first determination of the
gravitational constant by Henri Cavendish and the discovery of Coulomb's law. Torque …

Brownian carnot engine

IA Martínez, É Roldán, L Dinis, D Petrov… - Nature physics, 2016 - nature.com
The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor
operating between two thermal baths. However, this bound needs to be reinterpreted at …

Quantum phases from competing short-and long-range interactions in an optical lattice

R Landig, L Hruby, N Dogra, M Landini, R Mottl… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Insights into complex phenomena in quantum matter can be gained from simulation
experiments with ultracold atoms, especially in cases where theoretical characterization is …

Direct measurement of photon recoil from a levitated nanoparticle

V Jain, J Gieseler, C Moritz, C Dellago, R Quidant… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The momentum transfer between a photon and an object defines a fundamental limit for the
precision with which the object can be measured. If the object oscillates at a frequency Ω 0 …

Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial

J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Scalable all-optical cold damping of levitated nanoparticles

J Vijayan, Z Zhang, J Piotrowski, D Windey… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Motional control of levitated nanoparticles relies on either autonomous feedback via a cavity
or measurement-based feedback via external forces. Recent demonstrations of the …