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 …

We propose how to create and manipulate one-way nonclassical light via photon blockade
in rotating nonlinear devices. We refer to this effect as nonreciprocal photon blockade (PB) …

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 …

We report three-dimensional (3D) cooling of a levitated nanoparticle inside an optical cavity.
The cooling mechanism is provided by cavity-enhanced coherent scattering off an optical …

We implement a cold-damping scheme to cool one mode of the center-of-mass motion of an
optically levitated nanoparticle in ultrahigh vacuum (10-8 mbar) from room temperature to a …

Controlling the motional degrees of isolated, single nanoparticles trapped within optical
fields in a high vacuum are seen as ideal candidates for exploring the limits of quantum …

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 …

Optically levitated nano-objects in vacuum are among the highest quality mechanical
oscillators, and thus of great interest for force sensing, cavity quantum optomechanics, and …

Understanding the thermally activated escape from a metastable state is at the heart of
important phenomena such as the folding dynamics of proteins,, the kinetics of chemical …