Penny, TW;
Pontin, A;
Barker, PF;
(2023)
Sympathetic cooling and squeezing of two colevitated nanoparticles.
Physical Review Research
, 5
(1)
, Article 013070. 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013070.
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Abstract
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 suggested for improving force sensitivity and entangling macroscopic objects. In this article, two charged, silica nanoparticles, that are coupled through their mutual Coulomb repulsion, are trapped in a Paul trap, and the individual masses and charges of both particles are characterized. We demonstrate sympathetic cooling of one nanoparticle coupled via the Coulomb interaction to the second nanoparticle to which feedback cooling is directly applied. We also implement sympathetic squeezing through a similar process showing nonthermal motional states can be transferred by the Coulomb interaction. This work establishes protocols to cool and manipulate arrays of nanoparticles for sensing and minimizing the effect of optical heating in future experiments.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sympathetic cooling and squeezing of two colevitated nanoparticles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013070 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.013070 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165778 |
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