David is joining our group as a master student to study photoacoustic sensing with levitated particles! Good luck!
The article is now online and published in PRL! Thanks to all collaborators for their effort, it was a great experiment and great learning period!
Gido is joining our group as a master student to study the use of optimal feedback in our experiments! Good luck!
Our project Quivers from quantum kicks: a nanocollider to study the smallest forces of the Universe has been awarded funding by NWO! Check it our here. This is fantastic news for our group, giving us the opportunity to explore the use of levitated nanoparticles as quantum recoil sensors for searching new physics beyond the Standard Model. This also means that there are new PhD opportunity available!
Repeteability of free-fall experiments on Earth are limited by gravitational field. We demonstrate how to make use of two optical traps, with tunable distance, to release and recatch the same nanoparticle in an Earth-based lab. This work has been done at ETH Zurich in the lab of Lukas Novotny. Read more in out pre-print, which is available here!
Sweder is joining our group as a master student to develop on-chip electric traps! Good luck!
We are partecipating today to the kick-off meeting of the SUMMIT Quantum Limits. Our group is part of this wonderful collaboration, and we recently got awarded a project grant together with our colleague Sonia Conesa-Boj! PhD opportunity available!
Our theoretical proposal on how to remotely entangle two nanoparticles is now published in Phys. Rev. A! You can also find the open access arXiv version here.
We are thrilled to welcome Riccardo Bellese as the first PhD student in our group! Welcome aboard, and best of luck on this journey!.
By collecting and channeling the light scattered by two nanoparticles, we can correlate their motion and generate quantum entanglement. In our latest preprint, done at ETH Zurich in collaboration with Lukas Novotny’s and Oriol Romero-Isart’s groups, we propose a scheme that can be realized using state-of-the-art technology. You can read more here.
Quantum objects are characterized by an inherent fuzziness, for instance, they are never found in a standstill. In our recent work, done at ETH Zurich in the group of Lukas Novotny and in collaboration with the group of Oriol Romero-Isart, we have observed this quantum feature of a levitating nanoparticle. Starting from its ground state, we were able to delocalize its position in a coherent manner. You can read more here.
We are attending the Quantum Science: Implementations conference in Benasque, Spain. Wonderful atmospher and location to discuss the progresses and challanges of implementing quantum physics in different platforms! Come talk to us if you are interested in our work.
As of today, we are officially part of the Quantum Nanoscience Department at Delft University of Technology.