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Quantum ground-state cooling of two librational modes of a nanorotor
Stephan Troyer, Florian Fechtel, Lorenz Hummer +4
Controlling the motion of nanoscale objects at the quantum limit promises new tests of quantum mechanics and advanced sensors. Rotational motion is of particular interest, as it fo…
Inverse Microparticle Design for Enhanced Optical Trapping and Detection Efficiency in All Six Degrees of Freedom
Moosung Lee, Benjamin A. Stickler, Thomas Pertsch +1
Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is so…
Gyroscopically stabilized quantum spin rotors
Vanessa Wachter, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, Gabriel Hétet +1
Recent experiments demonstrate all-electric spinning of levitated nanodiamonds with embedded nitrogen-vacancy spins. Here, we argue that such gyroscopically stabilized spin rotors…
Desorption-induced decoherence of nanoparticle motion
Jonas Schäfer, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger
We derive the quantum master equation predicting how the translational and rotational dynamics of a nanoparticle is affected by the emission of surface adsorbates. This is motivate…