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Quantum Optomechanics with a levitating nanoparticle

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Project "QnanoMECA" data sheet

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Coordinator
FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES 

Organization address
address: AVINGUDA CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS 3
city: Castelldefels
postcode: 8860
website: www.icfo.eu

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 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Total cost 1˙987˙500 €
 EC max contribution 1˙987˙500 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2014-CoG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2015
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2015-10-01   to  2020-09-30

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES ES (Castelldefels) coordinator 1˙987˙500.00

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 Project objective

Micro- and nano-mechanical oscillators with high quality (Q)-factors have gained much interest for their capability to sense very small forces. Recently, this interest has exponentially grown owing to their potential to push the current limits of experimental quantum physics and contribute to our further understanding of quantum effects with large objects. Despite recent advances in the design and fabrication of mechanical resonators, their Q-factor has so far been limited by coupling to the environment through physical contact to a support. This limitation is foreseen to become a bottleneck in the field which might hinder reaching the performances required for some of the envisioned applications. A very attractive alternative to conventional mechanical resonators is based on optically levitated nano-objects in vacuum. In particular, a nanoparticle trapped in the focus of a laser beam in vacuum is mechanically disconnected from its environment and hence does not suffer from clamping losses. First experiments on this configuration have confirmed the unique capability of this approach and demonstrated the largest mechanical Q-factor ever observed at room temperature. The QnanoMECA project aims at capitalizing on the unique capability of optically levitating nanoparticles to advance the field of optomechanics well beyond the current state-of-the-art. The project is first aimed at bringing us closer to ground-state cooling at room temperature. We will also explore new paradigms of optomechanics based on the latest advances of nano-optics. The unique optomechanical properties of the developed systems based on levitated nanoparticles will be used to explore new physical regimes whose experimental observation has been so far hindered by current experimental limitations.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2016 Pau Mestres, Johann Berthelot, Srdjan S Aćimović, Romain Quidant
Unraveling the optomechanical nature of plasmonic trapping
published pages: e16092, ISSN: 2047-7538, DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2016.92
Light: Science & Applications 5/7 2019-06-06
2017 Esteban Bermúdez-Ureña, Gozde Tutuncuoglu, Javier Cuerda, Cameron L. C. Smith, Jorge Bravo-Abad, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Francisco J. García-Vidal, Romain Quidant
Plasmonic Waveguide-Integrated Nanowire Laser
published pages: 747-754, ISSN: 1530-6984, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03879
Nano Letters 17/2 2019-06-06
2017 Loïc Rondin, Jan Gieseler, Francesco Ricci, Romain Quidant, Christoph Dellago, Lukas Novotny
Direct measurement of Kramers turnover with a levitated nanoparticle
published pages: 1130-1133, ISSN: 1748-3387, DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.198
Nature Nanotechnology 12/12 2019-06-06
2018 Andreas W. Schell, Mikael Svedendahl, Romain Quidant
Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Have Spectrally Tunable Quantum Efficiency
published pages: 1704237, ISSN: 0935-9648, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704237
Advanced Materials 30/14 2019-06-06
2017 F. Ricci, R. A. Rica, M. Spasenović, J. Gieseler, L. Rondin, L. Novotny, R. Quidant
Optically levitated nanoparticle as a model system for stochastic bistable dynamics
published pages: 15141, ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15141
Nature Communications 8 2019-06-06
2016 Vijay Jain, Jan Gieseler, Clemens Moritz, Christoph Dellago, Romain Quidant, Lukas Novotny
Direct Measurement of Photon Recoil from a Levitated Nanoparticle
published pages: , ISSN: 0031-9007, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.243601
Physical Review Letters 116/24 2019-06-06
2016 I. Alda, J. Berthelot, R. A. Rica, R. Quidant
Trapping and manipulation of individual nanoparticles in a planar Paul trap
published pages: 163105, ISSN: 0003-6951, DOI: 10.1063/1.4965859
Applied Physics Letters 109/16 2019-06-06
2015 Pau Mestres, Johann Berthelot, Marko Spasenović, Jan Gieseler, Lukas Novotny, Romain Quidant
Cooling and manipulation of a levitated nanoparticle with an optical fiber trap
published pages: 151102, ISSN: 0003-6951, DOI: 10.1063/1.4933180
Applied Physics Letters 107/15 2019-06-06
2018 Gerard Planes Conangla, Andreas W. Schell, RAUL A. RICA, romain quidant
Motion control and optical interrogation of a levitating single NV in vacuum
published pages: , ISSN: 1530-6984, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01414
Nano Letters 2019-06-06

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