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 …

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 …

Advances in quantum technologies are giving rise to a revolution in the way fundamental
physics questions are explored at the empirical level. At the same time, they are the seeds …

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

Following the first demonstration of a levitated nanosphere cooled to the quantum ground
state in 2020 (U. Delić, et al. Science, vol. 367, p. 892, 2020), macroscopic quantum sensors …

Quantum control of a system requires the manipulation of quantum states faster than any
decoherence rate. For mesoscopic systems, this has so far only been reached by few …

We report on cooling of the center-of-mass motion of a nanoparticle via a coupling between
its motion and the optical field within a high finesse cavity. The resulting coupling is purely …

Ultralow-dissipation mechanical systems play an important role in metrology and exploring
macroscopic quantum phenomena. Here we report a diamagnetic levitated …

This paper quantifies the rate at which laser shot-noise energy is delivered to a nanoparticle
for the various scenarios commonly encountered in levitated optomechanics. Although …