Spin-mechanics with nitrogen-vacancy centers and trapped particles

M Perdriat, C Pellet-Mary, P Huillery, L Rondin, G Hétet - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Controlling the motion of macroscopic oscillators in the quantum regime has been the
subject of intense research in recent decades. In this direction, opto-mechanical systems …

Enhanced tripartite interactions in spin-magnon-mechanical hybrid systems

XL Hei, PB Li, XF Pan, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Coherent tripartite interactions among degrees of freedom of completely different nature are
instrumental for quantum information and simulation technologies, but they are generally …

Motional dynamical decoupling for interferometry with macroscopic particles

JS Pedernales, GW Morley, MB Plenio - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We extend the concept of dynamical decoupling from spin to mechanical degrees of
freedom of macroscopic objects, for application in interferometry. In this manner, the …

Single-spin magnetomechanics with levitated micromagnets

J Gieseler, A Kabcenell, E Rosenfeld, JD Schaefer… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate a new mechanical transduction platform for individual spin qubits. In our
approach, single micromagnets are trapped using a type-II superconductor in proximity of …

Hybrid opto-mechanical systems with nitrogen-vacancy centers

ZQ Yin, N Zhao, TC Li - Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2015 - Springer
In this review, we briefly review recent works on hybrid (nano) opto-mechanical systems that
contain both mechanical oscillators and diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. We also …

Free nano-object Ramsey interferometry for large quantum superpositions

C Wan, M Scala, GW Morley, ATMA Rahman… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We propose an interferometric scheme based on an untrapped nano-object subjected to
gravity. The motion of the center of mass (cm) of the free object is coupled to its internal spin …

3D sympathetic cooling and detection of levitated nanoparticles

DS Bykov, L Dania, F Goschin, TE Northup - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Cooling the center-of-mass motion of levitated nanoparticles provides a route to quantum
experiments at mesoscopic scales. Here we demonstrate three-dimensional sympathetic …

Langevin approach to quantum optics with molecules

M Reitz, C Sommer, C Genes - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We investigate the interaction between light and molecular systems modeled as quantum
emitters coupled to a multitude of vibrational modes via a Holstein-type interaction. We …

Motion control and optical interrogation of a levitating single nitrogen vacancy in vacuum

GP Conangla, AW Schell, RA Rica, R Quidant - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Levitation optomechanics exploits the unique mechanical properties of trapped nano-
objects in vacuum to address some of the limitations of clamped nanomechanical …

Theory for cavity cooling of levitated nanoparticles via coherent scattering: Master equation approach

C Gonzalez-Ballestero, P Maurer, D Windey, L Novotny… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We develop a theory for cavity cooling of the center-of-mass motion of a levitated
nanoparticle through coherent scattering into an optical cavity. We analytically determine the …