Optical tweezers—from calibration to applications: a tutorial

J Gieseler, JR Gomez-Solano, A Magazzù… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Torsional optomechanics of a levitated nonspherical nanoparticle

TM Hoang, Y Ma, J Ahn, J Bang, F Robicheaux, ZQ Yin… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
An optically levitated nanoparticle in vacuum is a paradigm optomechanical system for
sensing and studying macroscopic quantum mechanics. While its center-of-mass motion has …

Fundamentals and applications of optomechanically induced transparency

H **ong, Y Wu - Applied physics reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Cavity optomechanical systems have been shown to exhibit an analogon to atomic
electromagnetically induced transparency that a transmission window for the propagation of …

Spin-cooling of the motion of a trapped diamond

T Delord, P Huillery, L Nicolas, G Hétet - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Observing and controlling macroscopic quantum systems has long been a driving force in
quantum physics research. In particular, strong coupling between individual quantum …

Electron spin control of optically levitated nanodiamonds in vacuum

TM Hoang, J Ahn, J Bang, T Li - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Electron spins of diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centres are important quantum resources
for nanoscale sensing and quantum information. Combining NV spins with levitated …

Quantum superposition, entanglement, and state teleportation of a microorganism on an electromechanical oscillator

T Li, ZQ Yin - Science Bulletin, 2016 - Springer
Schrödinger's thought experiment to prepare a cat in a superposition of both alive and dead
states reveals profound consequences of quantum mechanics and has attracted enormous …

Sympathetic cooling and squeezing of two colevitated nanoparticles

TW Penny, A Pontin, PF Barker - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Levitated particles are an ideal tool for measuring weak forces and investigating quantum
mechanics in macroscopic objects. Arrays of two or more of these particles have been …

Photon–phonon entanglement and spin squeezing via dynamically strain-mediated Kerr nonlinearity in dressed nitrogen–vacancy centers

G Wang, Z Li, X Qin, Z Yang, X Li, X Wu, Y Zhou… - Optics & Laser …, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose a scheme to generate photon–phonon entanglement and spin squeezing in a
hybrid system which is composed of the nitrogen–vacancy (NV) centers, nanomechanical …

Initiating revolutions for optical manipulation: the origins and applications of rotational dynamics of trapped particles

GD Bruce, P Rodríguez-Sevilla… - Advances in Physics …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The fastest-spinning man-made object is a tiny dumbbell rotating at 5 GHz. The smallest
wind-up motor is constructed from a DNA molecule. Picoliter volumes of fluids are remotely …