Speaker
Uros Delic
(University of Vienna)
Description
Owing to its excellent isolation from thermal environment, an optically levitated silica nanoparticle in ultra-high vacuum is a strong candidate to observe quantum behavior of massive objects at room temperature, with applications ranging from sensing to testing fundamental physics. With the help of a new, non-standard cavity interaction – cavity cooling by coherent scattering – we have achieved a first step toward full quantum control of the nanoparticle motion: quantum ground state cooling. I will present our recent results on cavity interaction and discuss prospects of creating macroscopic quantum states with levitated nanoparticles.
Primary author
Uros Delic
(University of Vienna)
Co-authors
Mr
Manuel Reisenbauer
Kahan Dare
Prof.
Vladan Vuletic
(MIT)
Prof.
Nikolai Kiesel
Markus Aspelmeyer
