[HTML][HTML] Vacuum levitation and motion control on chip

B Melo, M T. Cuairan, GFM Tomassi, N Meyer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

High- Magnetic Levitation and Control of Superconducting Microspheres at Millikelvin Temperatures

J Hofer, R Gross, G Higgins, H Huebl, OF Kieler… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We report the levitation of a superconducting lead-tin sphere with 100 μ m diameter
(corresponding to a mass of 5.6 μ g) in a static magnetic trap formed by two coils in an anti …

Superconducting microsphere magnetically levitated in an anharmonic potential with integrated magnetic readout

M Gutierrez Latorre, G Higgins, A Paradkar, T Bauch… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles offer a promising path to quantum
experiments with picogram to microgram objects. In this work, we levitate a 700 ng∼ 10 17 …

Levitated optomechanics with meta-atoms

S Lepeshov, N Meyer, P Maurer, O Romero-Isart… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We propose to introduce additional control in levitated optomechanics by trapping a meta-
atom, ie, a subwavelength and high-permittivity dielectric particle supporting Mie …

Remote sensing of a levitated superconductor with a flux-tunable microwave cavity

P Schmidt, R Claessen, G Higgins, J Hofer… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We present a cavity-electromechanical system comprising a superconducting quantum
interference device which is embedded in a microwave resonator and coupled via a pickup …

Ferromagnetic levitation and harmonic trapping of a milligram-scale yttrium iron garnet sphere

M Fuwa, R Sakagami, T Tamegai - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We report passive magnetic levitation and three-dimensional harmonic trapping of a 0.3-
milligram, 0.5-millimeter-diameter yttrium iron garnet sphere at 4 K. The gradient of an …

Maglev for dark matter: Dark-photon and axion dark matter sensing with levitated superconductors

G Higgins, S Kalia, Z Liu - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Ultraprecise mechanical sensors offer an exciting avenue for testing new physics. While
many of these sensors are tailored to detect inertial forces, magnetically levitated (Maglev) …

Surface-induced decoherence and heating of charged particles

L Martinetz, K Hornberger, BA Stickler - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Levitating charged particles in ultrahigh vacuum provides a preeminent platform for quantum
information processing, for quantum-enhanced force and torque sensing, for probing …

Stable magnetic levitation of soft ferromagnets for macroscopic quantum mechanics

M Fuwa - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We propose a system for passive magnetic levitation and three-dimensional harmonic
trapping of soft ferromagnets. Our protocol utilizes the magnetic-field gradient for vertical …

[PDF][PDF] Superconducting microsphere magnetically levitated in an anharmonic potential

MG Latorre, G Higgins, A Paradkar… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles offer a promising path to quantum
experiments with picogram to microgram objects. In this work, we levitate a 700ng∼ 1017 …