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most citedNonlinear dynamics and millikelvin cavity-cooling of levitated nanoparticles

153 citations · 273 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Testing Spontaneous Collapse Models with Coulomb Mediated Squeezing

Suroj Dey, Peter Barker, Animesh Datta

We show that detecting steady-state Coulomb-mediated reduction in the thermal variance of the differential motional mode of two nanospheres can bound the Continuous Spontaneous Loc…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

MAQRO -- BPS 2023 Research Campaign Whitepaper

Rainer Kaltenbaek, Markus Arndt, Markus Aspelmeyer +43

The objective of the proposed MAQRO mission is to harness space for achieving long free-fall times, extreme vacuum, nano-gravity, and cryogenic temperatures to test the foundations…

quant-ph2016★ 22 cited

Split-sideband spectroscopy in slowly modulated optomechanics

E. B. Aranas, P. G. Z. Fonseca, P. F. Barker +1

Optomechanical coupling between the motion of a mechanical oscillator and a cavity represents a new arena for experimental investigation of quantum effects on the mesoscopic and ma…

quant-ph2015★ 153 cited

Nonlinear dynamics and millikelvin cavity-cooling of levitated nanoparticles

P. Z. G. Fonseca, E. B. Aranas, J. Millen +2

Optomechanical systems explore and exploit the coupling between light and the mechanical motion of matter. A nonlinear coupling offers access to rich new physics, in both the quant…

quant-ph2012★ 52 cited

Dynamics of levitated nanospheres: towards the strong coupling regime

T. S. Monteiro, J. Millen, G. A. T. Pender +3

The use of levitated nanospheres represents a new paradigm for the optomechanical cooling of a small mechanical oscillator, with the prospect of realising quantum oscillators with…

quant-ph2011★ 44 cited

Optomechanical cooling of levitated spheres with doubly-resonant fields

G. A. T. Pender, P. F. Barker, Florian Marquardt +2

Optomechanical cooling of levitated dielectric particles represents a promising new approach in the quest to cool small mechanical resonators towards their quantum ground state. We…