BACKGROUND Levitation of large objects has become a widely used technique in science
and engineering, and the control of levitated nano-and micro-objects in vacuum has gained …

Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

Quantum control of complex objects in the regime of large size and mass provides
opportunities for sensing applications and tests of fundamental physics. The realization of …

Convective thermal metamaterials are artificial structures where convection dominates in the
thermal process. Due to the field coupling between velocity and temperature, convection …

Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

The levitated sensor detector (LSD) is a compact resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector
based on optically trapped dielectric particles that is under construction. The LSD sensitivity …

We experimentally realize cavity cooling of all three translational degrees of motion of a
levitated nanoparticle in vacuum. The particle is trapped by a cavity-independent optical …

Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in
quantum physics research. In particular, strong coupling between individual quantum …

This paper demonstrates cooling of the center-of-mass motion of 10-μ m-diameter optically
levitated silica spheres to an effective temperature of 50±22 μ K, achieved by minimizing the …