[HTML][HTML] Quantum physics in space

A Belenchia, M Carlesso, Ö Bayraktar, D Dequal… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Advances in quantum technologies are giving rise to a revolution in the way fundamental
physics questions are explored at the empirical level. At the same time, they are the seeds …

Massive quantum systems as interfaces of quantum mechanics and gravity

S Bose, I Fuentes, AA Geraci, SM Khan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The traditional view from particle physics is that quantum gravity effects should only become
detectable at extremely high energies and small length scales. Due to the significant …

Cavity-mediated long-range interactions in levitated optomechanics

J Vijayan, J Piotrowski, C Gonzalez-Ballestero… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to engineer cavity-mediated interactions has emerged as a powerful tool for the
generation of non-local correlations and the investigation of non-equilibrium phenomena in …

Intensive cavity-magnomechanical cooling of a levitated macromagnet

A Kani, B Sarma, J Twamley - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We describe microwave cavity-magnomechanical center-of-mass cooling of a levitated
magnetic sphere. The standing magnetic component of the electromagnetic wave within a …

Controlling optomechanical libration with the degree of polarization

JA Zielińska, F van der Laan, A Norrman… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Control of the potential energy and free evolution lie at the heart of levitodynamics as key
requirements for sensing, wave function expansion, and mechanical squeezing protocols …

Quantum gravitational sensor for space debris

MZ Wu, M Toroš, S Bose, A Mazumdar - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Matter-wave interferometers have fundamental applications for gravity experiments such as
testing the equivalence principle and the quantum nature of gravity. In addition, matter-wave …

Quantum experiments with microscale particles

J Millen, BA Stickler - Contemporary Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Quantum theory is incredibly successful, explaining the microscopic world with great
accuracy, from the behaviour of subatomic particles to chemical reactions to solid-state …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of single nanoparticle anisotropy by laser induced optical alignment and Rayleigh scattering for determining particle morphology

M Rademacher, J Gosling, A Pontin, M Toroš… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the measurement of nanoparticle anisotropy by angularly resolved
Rayleigh scattering of single optical levitated particles that are oriented in space via the …

Requirements on quantum superpositions of macro-objects for sensing neutrinos

E Kilian, M Toroš, FF Deppisch, R Saakyan… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We examine a macroscopic system in a quantum superposition of two spatially separated
localized states as a detector for a stream of weakly interacting relativistic particles. We do …

Thermal intermodulation backaction in a high-cooperativity optomechanical system

CM Pluchar, AR Agrawal, DJ Wilson - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The pursuit of room temperature quantum optomechanics with tethered nanomechanical
resonators faces stringent challenges owing to extraneous mechanical degrees of freedom …