Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be
a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct …

At room temperature, mechanical motion driven by the quantum backaction of light has been
observed only in pioneering experiments in which an optical restoring force controls the …

A mechanically compliant element can be set into motion by the interaction with light. In turn,
this light-driven motion can give rise to ponderomotive correlations in the electromagnetic …

The development of quantum optomechanics now allows mechanical sensors with
femtogram masses to be controlled and measured in the quantum regime. If the mechanical …

We theoretically show that laser recoil heating in free-space levitated optomechanics can be
arbitrarily suppressed by shining squeezed light onto an optically trapped nanoparticle. The …

Mechanical systems prepared in quantum non-Gaussian states constitute a new advanced
class of phenomena breaking the laws of classical physics. Specifically, such mechanical …

The pursuit of room temperature quantum optomechanics with tethered nanomechanical
resonators faces stringent challenges owing to extraneous mechanical degrees of freedom …

Optically levitated nanoparticles emerged as an interesting platform for probing fundamental
physics. Quantum control of their motion (including potential shaping) predisposes them for …

Sufficiently fast continuous measurements of the position of an oscillator approach
measurements projective on position eigenstates. We evidence the transition into the …

We consider distillation of squeezing in single mode squeezed vacuum state using three
different probabilistic non-Gaussian operations: photon subtraction (PS), photon addition …