Rotations of microscale rigid bodies exhibit pronounced quantum phenomena that do not
exist for their centre-of-mass motion. By levitating nanoparticles in ultra-high vacuum …

Optical forces and torques offer the route towards full degree-of-freedom manipulation of
matter. Exploiting structured light has led to the discovery of gradient and curl forces, and …

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 …

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 …

Levitated diamond particles in high vacuum with internal spin qubits have been proposed for
exploring macroscopic quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, and precision measurements …

The momentum carried by structured light fields exhibits a rich array of surprising features. In
this work, we generate transverse orbital angular momentum (TOAM) in the interference field …

Realizing a large-scale fully controllable quantum system is a challenging task in current
physical research and has broad applications. In this work, we create a reconfigurable …

A levitated nonspherical nanoparticle in a vacuum is ideal for studying quantum rotations
and is an ultrasensitive torque detector for probing fundamental particle–surface …

摘要光学超构表面凭借其小型化集成化的优势和对光场出色的调控能力, 近年来已被深入应用于
光学微操控技术研究, 这标志着该交叉领域进入了新的发展阶段. 特别地, 由于超构表面的尺寸在 …

Two objects in relative motion without physical contact suffer a friction force, resulting from
vacuum fluctuation. It is widely accepted that friction acts in the opposite direction of the …