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Optimal Cooling of Multiple Levitated Particles through Far-Field Wavefront-Shaping

arXiv:2103.12592 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.083203

Abstract

Light forces can be harnessed to levitate mesoscopic objects and cool them down towards their motional quantum ground state. Significant roadblocks on the way to scale up levitation from a single to multiple particles in close proximity are the requirements to constantly monitor the particles' positions as well as to engineer complex light fields that react fast and appropriately to their movements. Here, we present an approach that solves both problems at once. By exploiting the information stored in a time-dependent scattering matrix, we introduce a robust formalism enabling the identification of spatially modulated wavefronts, which simultaneously cool down multiple levitated objects of arbitrary shapes. An experimental implementation is suggested based on stroboscopic scattering-matrix measurements and time-adaptive injections of modulated light fields.

This update includes a thermal noise analysis and an application of our far-field cooling approach to multiple trapped particles. Details of all derivations and extended numerical simulations are posted in the parallel submission arXiv:2206.01046

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