In a 3 minute video with the online journal, Erika Aranas and other group members explain the work
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Our paper “Nonlinear dynamics and strong cavity-cooling of levitated nanoparticles” has been recently published in Physical Review Letter! It has been also selected to be a PRL Editor’s suggestion!
You can find the paper here.
Congratulations to Lia (Ying Lia Li) for passing her Ph.D. viva on the 22nd September! Her Ph.D. thesis is titled ‘Cooling and sensing using whispering gallery mode resonators’.
Dr. Li has taken on a post-doc position with Prof. Barker to further her research on whispering gallery modes.
Members of the group attended Quantum Engineering of Levitated systems meeting (Benasque)
(left) Giacomo Fonseca, Peter Barker, Nathanel, Antonio, Tania Monteiro. (right) Giacomo, Nathanael, Antonio.
Our paper on using optical whispering gallery modes (WGM) to detect and cool mechanical modes of a microsphere-cantilever and the motion of the tapered fibre used to couple light into the WGM has been published in Optics Express!
Ying Lia Li, James Millen, and P. F. Barker, “Simultaneous cooling of coupled mechanical oscillators using whispering gallery mode resonances,” Opt. Express 24, 1392-1401 (2016)
We have just uploaded a new experimental paper on the ArXiv, click here to view it.
The paper is titled ‘Macroscopic Center-of-Mass Cooling using Whispering Gallery Mode Resonances’ and covers the main achievements from Lia’s Ph.D. project.
As technology continues to miniaturize, we need new ways to control micro-devices. Light is an excellent tool for both measuring the motion of small objects as well as manipulating them. We show that by trapping light from an ultra-thin optical fiber within a glass sphere (diameter of human hair), we can detect the displacement between them that is smaller than the size of an atom! Using this transduction we reduce the natural thermal vibrations from the environment by cooling the motion of both objects by almost 300 C. This is the first time this has been achieved on two objects at once, or with objects this large and heavy.
Our UCL theory team comprised of Marco and Alessio, collaborating with Jinglei Zhang at Scuola Normale Superiore and James (now with Markus Arndt) have published a paper titled ‘Quantum cooling and squeezing of a levitated nanosphere via time-continuous measurements’, which is in the New Journal of Physics.
This work is particularly interesting for the many nanosphere cavity cooling experiments being conducted around the world, including our very own! In the paper they find that the addition of continuous measurement of the system can help create more non-classical states, squeeze the nanosphere’s position, and enhance cooling, helping us to reach a mechanical ground state.
Direct link to the pdf: here
