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 …

The study of open quantum systems–microscopic systems exhibiting quantum coherence
that are coupled to their environment–has become increasingly important in the past years …

Arrays of optically trapped nanoparticles have emerged as a platform for the study of
complex nonequilibrium phenomena. Analogous to atomic many-body systems, one of the …

Levitated optomechanics has great potential in precision measurements, thermodynamics,
macroscopic quantum mechanics, and quantum sensing. Here we synthesize and optically …

The coupling of a levitated submicron particle and an optical cavity field promises access to
a unique parameter regime both for macroscopic quantum experiments and for high …

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 …

We propose a method to generate and detect large quantum superposition states and
arbitrary Fock states for the oscillational mode of an optically levitated nanocrystal diamond …

We review recent works on optomechanics of optically trapped microspheres and
nanoparticles in vacuum, which provide an ideal system for studying macroscopic quantum …

Optically levitated nonspherical particles in vacuum are excellent candidates for torque
sensing, rotational quantum mechanics, high-frequency gravitational wave detection, and …

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 …