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 …

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 …

We spatially expand and subsequently contract the motional thermal state of a levitated
nanoparticle using a hybrid trapping scheme. The particle's center-of-mass motion is …

Charged microparticles confined in electrodynamic traps evolve into strongly coupled
Coulomb systems (SCCS) which are the subject of current investigation. Recent results with …

All three motional modes of a charged dielectric nanoparticle in a Paul trap are cooled
simultaneously by direct feedback to temperatures of a few millikelvins. We test two …

We present a hybrid trapping platform that allows us to levitate a charged nanoparticle in
high vacuum using either optical fields, radio-frequency fields, or a combination thereof. Our …

We theoretically show that laser recoil heating in free-space levitated optomechanics can be
arbitrarily suppressed by shining squeezed light onto an optically trapped nanoparticle. The …

Levitated nanoparticles in vacuum, with their intrinsically low coupling to the environment,
hold the promise of precision force sensing and open new avenues for exploring …

We describe how to prepare an electrically levitated nanodiamond in a superposition of
orientations via microwave driving of a single embedded nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center …

We propose to introduce additional control in levitated optomechanics by trapping a meta-
atom, ie, a subwavelength and high-permittivity dielectric particle supporting Mie …