Towards quantum limited optomechanical force & displacement sensing at room temperatures

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• Tania Monteiro (UCL)
• Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00
• Physics East 217.

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There is current interest in working towards future quantum technologies which operate at room temperatures. One approach is based on oscillators (levitated nanoparticles or high-Q membranes) decoupled from major sources of environmental heating and decoherence. The LIGO experiments represents something of a gold-standard for sensing of quantum scale displacements, having detected displacements  10^{-18}m, a small fraction of an atomic nucleus. However these are very much ‘Big science’ projects and the ambition is to develop a new generation of table-top experiments which incorporate some of the advances and understanding of sensing at the standard quantum limit (SQL) and beyond from LIGO , but using such high-Q oscillators. I will review attempts to cool the motion of levitated nanoparticles at UCL

[1] J. Millen, P. Fonseca, T. Mavrogordatos, T.S.Monteiro and P.F. Barker, PRL 114 ,123602 (2015) [2] P. Fonseca, E.Aranas, T.S.Monteiro, P. F. Barker, PRL 117 ,173602 (2016) [3] A. Pontin, J.E. Lang, A. Chowdhury, P. Vezio,F. Marino, B. Morana, E. Serra, F. Marin, T.S. Monteiro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020503 (2018)

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