Quantum rotations of levitated nanoparticles

by Dr. Benjamin Stckler

University of Duisburg-Essen

at Quantum optics seminar

Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 15:00
ZOOM only

Abstract

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87521723222

Abstract: The non-linearity and anharmonicity of rigid body rotations gives rise to pronounced quantum interference effects with no analogue in the body's centre-of-mass motion [1]. This talk will briefly review three such effects, orientational quantum revivals [2], the quantum tennis racket effect [3], and spin-controlled rigid-body rotations [4], and discuss how elliptic coherent scattering cooling [5] opens the door to rotational quantum experiments with nanoscale particles and rotational tests of collapse models.

[1] Stickler, Hornberger, and Kim, Nat. Rev. Phys. 3, 589 (2021).
[2] Stickler, Papendell, Kuhn, Millen, Arndt, and Hornberger, New J. Phys. 20, 122001 (2018).
[3] Ma, Khosla, Stickler, and Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053604 (2020).
[4] Ma, Kim, and Stickler, Phys. Rev. B 104, 134310 (2021).
[5] Schäfer, Rudolph, Hornberger, and Stickler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163603 (2021).

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