Quantum control of levitated massive mechanical systems: a new approach for gravitational quantum physics

Project Information

QLev4G

Grant agreement ID: 649008

DOI 10.3030/649008

Project closed

EC signature date 8 April 2015

Start date 1 June 2015

End date 31 May 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 155 285,00

EU contribution € 2 155 285,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry of single phonons from an optomechanical resonator

Author(s): Sungkun Hong, Ralf Riedinger, Igor Marinković, Andreas Wallucks, Sebastian G. Hofer, Richard A. Norte, Markus Aspelmeyer, Simon Gröblacher
Published in: Science, Issue 358/6360, 2017, Page(s) 203-206, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan7939

Remote quantum entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators

Author(s): Ralf Riedinger, Andreas Wallucks, Igor Marinković, Clemens Löschnauer, Markus Aspelmeyer, Sungkun Hong, Simon Gröblacher
Published in: Nature, Issue 556/7702, 2018, Page(s) 473-477, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0036-z

Non-classical correlations between single photons and phonons from a mechanical oscillator

Author(s): Ralf Riedinger, Sungkun Hong, Richard A. Norte, Joshua A. Slater, Juying Shang, Alexander G. Krause, Vikas Anant, Markus Aspelmeyer, Simon Gröblacher
Published in: Nature, Issue 530/7590, 2016, Page(s) 313-316, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/nature16536

Thermal performance of a radiatively cooled system for quantum optomechanical experiments in space

Author(s): André Pilan Zanoni, Johannes Burkhardt, Ulrich Johann, Markus Aspelmeyer, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Gerald Hechenblaikner
Published in: Applied Thermal Engineering, Issue 107, 2016, Page(s) 689-699, ISSN 1359-4311
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.06.116

Optical trapping and control of nanoparticles inside evacuated hollow core photonic crystal fibers

Author(s): David Grass, Julian Fesel, Sebastian G. Hofer, Nikolai Kiesel, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 108/22, 2016, Page(s) 221103, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.4953025

A micromechanical proof-of-principle experiment for measuring the gravitational force of milligram masses

Author(s): Jonas Schmöle, Mathias Dragosits, Hans Hepach, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity, Issue 33/12, 2016, Page(s) 125031, ISSN 0264-9381
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125031

Near-field coupling of a levitated nanoparticle to a photonic crystal cavity

Author(s): Lorenzo Magrini, Richard A. Norte, Ralf Riedinger, Igor Marinković, David Grass, Uroš Delić, Simon Gröblacher, Sungkun Hong, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Optica, Issue 5/12, 2018, Page(s) 1597, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/optica.5.001597

Quantum superposition of massive objects and the quantization of gravity

Author(s): Alessio Belenchia, Robert M. Wald, Flaminia Giacomini, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Časlav Brukner, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 98/12, 2018, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.126009

Optomechanical Bell Test

Author(s): Igor Marinković, Andreas Wallucks, Ralf Riedinger, Sungkun Hong, Markus Aspelmeyer, Simon Gröblacher
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 121/22, 2018, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.121.220404

Information content of the gravitational field of a quantum superposition

Author(s): Alessio Belenchia, Robert M. Wald, Flaminia Giacomini, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Časlav Brukner, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D, Issue 28/14, 2019, Page(s) 1943001, ISSN 0218-2718
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
DOI: 10.1142/s0218271819430016

Cavity Cooling of a Levitated Nanosphere by Coherent Scattering

Author(s): Uroš Delić, Manuel Reisenbauer, David Grass, Nikolai Kiesel, Vladan Vuletić, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/12, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.123602

Analytic solutions to the Maxwell–London equations and levitation force for a superconducting sphere in a quadrupole field

Author(s): J Hofer, M Aspelmeyer
Published in: Physica Scripta, Issue 94/12, 2019, Page(s) 125508, ISSN 0031-8949
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ab0c44

Cooling of a levitated nanoparticle to the motional quantum ground state

Author(s): Uroš Delić, Manuel Reisenbauer, Kahan Dare, David Grass, Vladan Vuletić, Nikolai Kiesel, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Science, Issue 367/6480, 2020, Page(s) 892-895, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba3993

Levitated cavity optomechanics in high vacuum

Author(s): Uroš Delić, David Grass, Manuel Reisenbauer, Tobias Damm, Martin Weitz, Nikolai Kiesel, Markus Aspelmeyer
Published in: Quantum Science and Technology, Issue 5/2, 2020, Page(s) 025006, ISSN 2058-9565
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/ab7989