Optical trapping describes the interaction between light and matter to manipulate micro-
objects through momentum transfer. In the case of 3D trapping with a single beam, this is …

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 …

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

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 …

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

Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

We experimentally realize cavity cooling of all three translational degrees of motion of a
levitated nanoparticle in vacuum. The particle is trapped by a cavity-independent optical …

Stochastic thermodynamics lays down a broad framework to revisit the venerable concepts
of heat, work and entropy production for individual stochastic trajectories of mesoscopic …

Miniaturized mechanical sensors rely on resonant operation schemes, unsuited to detect
static forces. We demonstrate a nanomechanical sensor for static forces based on an …

We introduce and theoretically analyze a scheme to prepare and detect non-Gaussian
quantum states of an optically levitated particle via the interaction with light pulses that …