By isolating from the environment and precisely controlling mesoscopic objects, levitation in
vacuum has evolved into a versatile technique that has already benefited diverse scientific …

We spatially expand and subsequently contract the motional thermal state of a levitated
nanoparticle using a hybrid trapping scheme. The particle's center-of-mass motion is …

We report the detection of individual nuclear α decays through the mechanical recoil of the
entire micron-sized particle in which the decaying nuclei are embedded. Momentum …

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

Generating macroscopic nonclassical quantum states is a long-standing challenge in
physics. Anharmonic dynamics is an essential ingredient to generate these states, but for …

We report on an experiment achieving the dynamical generation of non-Gaussian states of
motion of a levitated optomechanical system. We access intrinsic Duffing-like non-linearities …

We analyze theoretically the motional quantum dynamics of a levitated dielectric sphere
interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field beyond the point-dipole approximation …

We introduce a method to solve nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations
where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small …

The quantum to classical transition is determined by the interplay of a trio of parameters:
dissipation, nonlinearity, and macroscopicity. Why is nonlinearity needed to see quantum …

Stern-Gerlach interferometer (SGI) is a kind of matter-wave interferometer driven by
magnetic field and has been proposed for many gravity experiments. Acceleration noises …