Quantum technologies are opening novel avenues for applied and fundamental science at
an impressive pace. In this perspective article, we focus on the promises coming from the …

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 …

The nanomechanical resonator based on a levitated particle exhibits unique advantages in
the development of ultrasensitive electric field detectors. We demonstrate a three …

Optomechanical devices are being harnessed as sensors of ultraweak forces for
applications ranging from inertial sensing to the search for the elusive dark matter. For the …

The strong light-matter optomechanical coupling offered by coherent scattering set-ups have
allowed the experimental realization of quantum ground-state cavity cooling of the axial …

We consider a nanoparticle levitated in a Paul trap in ultrahigh cryogenic vacuum, and look
for the conditions which allow for a stringent noninterferometric test of spontaneous collapse …

We report feedback cooling of translational and librational degrees of freedom of a levitated
micromagnet cylinder, utilizing a piezoelectric actuator to apply linear feedback to high-Q …

A proposal for cooling the translational motion of optically levitated magnetic nanoparticles
is presented. The theoretical cooling scheme involves the sympathetic cooling of a …

Optomechanical devices are being harnessed as sensors of ultraweak forces for
applications ranging from inertial sensing to the search for the elusive dark matter; For the …

We experimentally observe the dipole scattering of a nanoparticle using a high numerical
aperture (NA) imaging system. The optically levitated nanoparticle provides an environment …