BACKGROUND Levitation of large objects has become a widely used technique in science
and engineering, and the control of levitated nano-and micro-objects in vacuum has gained …

We present an experimental proposal for the rapid preparation of the center of mass of a
levitated particle in a macroscopic quantum state, that is a state delocalized over a length …

By isolating from the environment and precisely controlling mesoscopic objects, levitation in
vacuum has evolved into a versatile technique that has already benefited diverse scientific …

The propulsion and acceleration of nanoparticles with light have both fundamental and
applied significance across many disciplines. Needle‐free injection of biomedical nano …

Charged microparticles confined in electrodynamic traps evolve into strongly coupled
Coulomb systems (SCCS) which are the subject of current investigation. Recent results with …

We spatially expand and subsequently contract the motional thermal state of a levitated
nanoparticle using a hybrid trap** scheme. The particle's center-of-mass motion is …

We theoretically show that laser recoil heating in free-space levitated optomechanics can be
arbitrarily suppressed by shining squeezed light onto an optically trapped nanoparticle. The …

All three motional modes of a charged dielectric nanoparticle in a Paul trap are cooled
simultaneously by direct feedback to temperatures of a few millikelvins. We test two …

We analyze theoretically the motional quantum dynamics of a levitated dielectric sphere
interacting with the quantum electromagnetic field beyond the point-dipole approximation …

We describe how to prepare an electrically levitated nanodiamond in a superposition of
orientations via microwave driving of a single embedded nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center …