Motional Sideband Asymmetry of a Nanoparticle Optically Levitated in Free Space
arXiv:1908.05079 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.013603
Abstract
The hallmark of quantum physics is Planck's constant , whose finite value entails the quantization that gave the theory its name. The finite value of gives rise to inevitable zero-point fluctuations even at vanishing temperature. The zero-point fluctuation of mechanical motion becomes smaller with growing mass of an object, making it challenging to observe at macroscopic scales. Here, we transition a dielectric particle with a diameter of 136 nm from the classical realm to the regime where its zero-point motion emerges as a sizeable contribution to its energy. To this end, we optically trap the particle at ambient temperature in ultrahigh vacuum and apply active feedback cooling to its center-of-mass motion. We measure an asymmetry between the Stokes and anti-Stokes sidebands of photons scattered by the levitated particle, which is a signature of the particle's quantum ground state of motion.
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