Levitated Nanophysics Group

Yanhui joined us in 2018, and we are sad to lose him, but excited about his future research career at ETH Zurich.

It was a pleasure to host Dr Jaya Vijayan as an extended visitor to the group. We’re looking forward to many more collaborations in the future.

Welcome to our newest recruit, Sophie Sanghera, who will be working on rotations in an optical cavity.

Yanhui & James M were excited to attend the LeviNet sponsored meeting Exploiting Levitated Particles in the Quantum Regime in Bad Honef, Germany. James presented the group’s work on levitated electromechanics.

We were proud to participate in the first UK Nanoday. Thanks for He, Joe, Jon & Molly for attending with our Quantum Workshop demos!

Many useful discussions at the ECT conference on “QUANTUM SENSING AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS WITH LEVITATED MECHANICAL SYSTEMS” in Trento.

Welcome Jon, who has joined us after completing his thesis “Microwave induced optical nonlinearities in cuprous oxide” at Durham University. He will be working on our electromechanics projects.

Yanhui & Molly from our team supported speakers from UCL with our Quantum Workshop optical tweezer demo at the Royal Society for the event: “Unlocking the Secrets of Dark Matter“.

Welcome Joe, who has joined us after completing his thesis “Propagation Effects within an Extended Optical Amplifier and Their Impact on the Spatial Distribution of Squeezing: Towards Quantum Imaging” at the University of Birmingham. He will be leading our industry funded sensing project.

Our collaborative work with Xiaohao Xu (Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, China) and Paco Rodriguez-Fortuno‘s group (King’s) has just been published in Nature Communications. We generated and probed an entirely new structure of light:

Structured transverse orbital angular momentum probed by a levitated optomechanical sensor