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

Levitated Nanoparticles have received much attention for their potential to perform quantum
mechanical experiments even at room temperature. However, even in the regime where the …

Levitated optomechanics, a new experimental physics platform, holds promise for
fundamental science and quantum technological sensing applications. We demonstrate a …

Phonon lasers are mechanical analogues of the ubiquitous optical laser and have been
realized in a variety of contexts,,,,,,,,,,–. However, no such demonstration exists for …

Using a double-well potential as a physical memory, we study with experiments and
numerical simulations the energy exchanges during erasure processes, and model …

We demonstrate that a Kalman filter applied to estimate the position of an optically levitated
nanoparticle, and operated in real-time within a field programmable gate array, is sufficient …

Landauer's principle makes a strong connection between information theory and
thermodynamics by stating that erasing a one-bit memory at temperature T 0 requires an …

Optically trapped nanoparticles have recently emerged as exciting candidates for tests of
quantum mechanics at the macroscale and as versatile platforms for ultrasensitive …

Birefringent microspheres, trapped in vacuum and set into rotation by circularly polarised
light, demonstrate remarkably stable translational motion. This is in marked contrast to …

Based on analytical and numerical calculations we study the dynamics of an overdamped
colloidal particle moving in two dimensions under time-delayed, nonlinear feedback control …