Cavity Optomechanics of Levitated Nanodumbbells
- Author(s)
- Wolfgang Lechner, Steven Habraken, Nikolai Kiesel, Markus Aspelmeyer, Peter Zoller
- Abstract
Levitated nanospheres in optical cavities open a novel route to study many-body systems out of solution and highly isolated from the environment. We show that properly tuned optical parameters allow for the study of the nonequilibrium dynamics of composite nanoparticles with nonisotropic optical friction. We find optically induced ordering and nematic transitions with nonequilibrium analogs to liquid crystal phases for ensembles of dimers.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume
- 110
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.143604
- Publication date
- 04-2013
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103015 Condensed matter, 103025 Quantum mechanics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/cavity-optomechanics-of-levitated-nanodumbbells(733cc268-d7fc-4441-8067-3f8fe3d9465c).html