Initiating revolutions for optical manipulation: the origins and applications of rotational dynamics of trapped particles

GD Bruce, P Rodríguez-Sevilla… - Advances in Physics …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The fastest-spinning man-made object is a tiny dumbbell rotating at 5 GHz. The smallest
wind-up motor is constructed from a DNA molecule. Picoliter volumes of fluids are remotely …

Spin-mechanics with nitrogen-vacancy centers and trapped particles

M Perdriat, C Pellet-Mary, P Huillery, L Rondin, G Hétet - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Controlling the motion of macroscopic oscillators in the quantum regime has been the
subject of intense research in recent decades. In this direction, opto-mechanical systems …

Enhanced tripartite interactions in spin-magnon-mechanical hybrid systems

XL Hei, PB Li, XF Pan, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Coherent tripartite interactions among degrees of freedom of completely different nature are
instrumental for quantum information and simulation technologies, but they are generally …

Single-spin magnetomechanics with levitated micromagnets

J Gieseler, A Kabcenell, E Rosenfeld, JD Schaefer… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate a new mechanical transduction platform for individual spin qubits. In our
approach, single micromagnets are trapped using a type-II superconductor in proximity of …

Spin-cooling of the motion of a trapped diamond

T Delord, P Huillery, L Nicolas, G Hétet - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in
quantum physics research. In particular, strong coupling between individual quantum …

Intensive cavity-magnomechanical cooling of a levitated macromagnet

A Kani, B Sarma, J Twamley - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We describe microwave cavity-magnomechanical center-of-mass cooling of a levitated
magnetic sphere. The standing magnetic component of the electromagnetic wave within a …

Spin-controlled quantum interference of levitated nanorotors

CC Rusconi, M Perdriat, G Hétet, O Romero-Isart… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We describe how to prepare an electrically levitated nanodiamond in a superposition of
orientations via microwave driving of a single embedded nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center …

Quantum acoustomechanics with a micromagnet

C Gonzalez-Ballestero, J Gieseler, O Romero-Isart - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We show theoretically how to strongly couple the center-of-mass motion of a micromagnet in
a harmonic potential to one of its acoustic phononic modes. The coupling is induced by a …

Ultralow mechanical damping with Meissner-levitated ferromagnetic microparticles

A Vinante, P Falferi, G Gasbarri, A Setter… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Levitated nanoparticles and microparticles are excellent candidates for the realization of
extremely isolated mechanical systems, with a huge potential impact in sensing applications …

Magnomechanically induced transparency and tunable slow-fast light via a levitated micromagnet

S Bayati, M Bagheri Harouni, A Mahdifar - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we theoretically investigate the magnomechanically induced transparency
(MIT) phenomenon and slow-fast light propagation in a microwave cavity-magno<? pag\-?> …