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Kleiner Physik-Hörsaal N 020, Fakultät für Physik
Date: 10.05.2019, Time: 15:30h

Levitodynamics

Prof. Lukas Novotny, ETH Zürich

I discuss our experiments with optically levitated nanoparticles in ultrahigh vacuum. Using both active and passive feedback techniques we cool the particle’s center-of-mass temperature to T∼100μK and reach mean quantum occupation numbers of n ∼ 15. I show that mechanical quality factors of Q = 109 can be reached and that damping is dominated by photon recoil heating. The vacuum-trapped nanoparticle forms an ideal model system for studying non-equilibrium processes, nonlinear interactions, and ultrasmall forces.

 

 

Figure 1: Photograph of light scattered from a laser-trapped diamond nanoparticle.