Author Archives: drjmillen

    I have thoroughly enjoyed attending the Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation meeting at SPIE Optics and Photonics 2017 in San Diego. I delivered a tutorial lecture on Optomechanics and chaired a session on levitated optomechanics. You can find … Continue reading →

I had an great day hosted by Klemens Hammerer, giving a talk on our research and visiting various labs. I particularly enjoyed seeing a rocket which launched cold atoms into space, and the 10m LIGO prototype.

Very happy to speak about Rotational Optomechanics at the Highland Spring School on Mesoscopic Physics, organized by the Czech Academy of Sciences. AND it took place in a physics castle!  

Our work on optical control of levitated nanorods has been published in Optica! Kuhn, Kosloff et al., Optica 4, 356-360 (2017)

I am very excited to announce a new paper we have put online. By driving the motion of a levitated nano-rod, we have created the highest quality rotations ever observed. This has profound implications for force sensing. You can find the … Continue reading →

Very pleased that our recent work on cavity cooling levitated nanoparticles has been chosen as a highlight in Nature Photonics! Cooling Dynamics

We were very happy to visit the Zemánek Group at ISI Brno, to discuss future collaborations, and for James to present the latest results from Vienna.

Very pleased to announce that our work “Nonlinear Dynamics and Strong Cavity Cooling of Levitated Nanoparticles” has been published in Physical Review Letters as an Editor’s Suggestion. This work smashes the record for cooling nanoparticles with an optical cavity, reaching … Continue reading →

Our nanofabrication collaborators, the Patolsky group at Tel Aviv University, have published a paper outlining their amazing method for producing silicon nanoparticles; we like to call it the “nanosalami” technique! Nanodicing Single Crystalline Silicon Nanowire Arrays

The Hornberger Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the long-time collaborators of the Vienna Quantum Nanophysics group, have published two back-to-back papers inspired by our research. Spatial decoherence: Phys. Rev. A 94, 033828 Rotational cavity cooling: Phys. Rev. A 94, 033818