Optomechanics with levitated particles

J Millen, TS Monteiro, R Pettit… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Optical pulling forces and their applications

H Li, Y Cao, LM Zhou, X Xu, T Zhu, Y Shi… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Revealing the velocity uncertainties of a levitated particle in the quantum ground state

M Kamba, K Aikawa - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate time-of-flight measurements for an ultracold levitated nanoparticle and
reveal its velocity for the translational motion brought to the quantum ground state. We …

Levitated optomechanics: A tutorial and perspective

G Winstone, M Bhattacharya, AA Geraci, T Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Optomechanics, the study of the mechanical interaction of light with matter, has proven to be
a fruitful area of research that has yielded many notable achievements, including the direct …

Using the transient trajectories of an optically levitated nanoparticle to characterize a stochastic Duffing oscillator

J Flajšmanová, M Šiler, P Jedlička, F Hrubý… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We propose a novel methodology to estimate parameters characterizing a weakly nonlinear
Duffing oscillator represented by an optically levitating nanoparticle. The method is based …

Strong mechanical squeezing in an optomechanical system based on Lyapunov control

B Xiong, X Li, SL Chao, Z Yang, WZ Zhang… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a scheme to generate strong squeezing of a mechanical oscillator in an
optomechanical system through Lyapunov control. Frequency modulation of the mechanical …

Coherent control of a single nitrogen-vacancy center spin in optically levitated nanodiamond

RM Pettit, LP Neukirch, Y Zhang… - Journal of the Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report the first observation, to the best of our knowledge, of electron spin transients in
single negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV^−) centers, contained within optically …

symmetry, induced mechanical lasing, and tunable force sensing in a coupled-mode optically levitated nanoparticle

S Sharma, A Kani, M Bhattacharya - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We theoretically investigate PT symmetry, induced mechanical lasing, and force sensing in
an optically levitated nanoparticle with coupled oscillation modes. The coupling in the …

Magnetometry via spin-mechanical coupling in levitated optomechanics

P Kumar, M Bhattacharya - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We analyze magnetometry using an optically levitated nanodiamond. We consider a
configuration where a magnetic field gradient couples the mechanical oscillation of the …

Second-order magnetic field gradient-induced strong coupling between nitrogen-vacancy centers and a mechanical oscillator

K Cai, RX Wang, ZQ Yin, GL Long - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2017 - Springer
We consider a cantilever mechanical oscillator (MO) made of diamond. A nitrogen-vacancy
(NV) center lies at the end of the cantilever. Two magnetic tips near the NV center induce a …