Feedback cooling a levitated nanoparticle's libration to below 100 phonons

Macroscopic rotors are interesting model systems to test quantum theory and for quantum sensing. A promising approach for bringing these systems to the quantum regime is to combine sensitive detection with feedback cooling to reduce the thermal occupation of the mechanics. Here, we implement a backward-scattering scheme to efficiently detect all three libration modes of an optically levitated nanoparticle. We demonstrate parametric feedback cooling of all three libration degrees of freedom to below 16~mK, with one of the modes reaching the temperature of 1.3~mK, corresponding to a mean phonon number of 84. Finally, we characterize the backward-scattering scheme by determining its measurement efficiency to be 0.5\%..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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arXiv.org - (2024) vom: 29. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gao, Jialiang [VerfasserIn]
van der Laan, Fons [VerfasserIn]
Zielinska, Joanna A. [VerfasserIn]
Militaru, Andrei [VerfasserIn]
Novotny, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Frimmer, Martin [VerfasserIn]

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XCH042738946