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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 21: Optomechanics I

Q 21.4: Talk

Monday, March 5, 2018, 17:00–17:15, K 0.023

Rotational quantum revivals of nanoscale particles — •Birthe Papendell, Benjamin A. Stickler, and Klaus Hornberger — Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Recent progress in the optical manipulation [1-4] of levitated nanoparticles as well as the prospect of ro-translational ground state cooling [5] open the door for quantum experiments with orientational coherences. We present a scheme for the observation of quantum revivals in the rotation state of a nanoparticle in high vacuum. To assess the feasibility of the setup the rotational quantum dynamics nanometer-sized double-walled carbon nanotubes is studied in presence of environmental decoherence.

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[2] Hoang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 123604 (2016)

[3] Kuhn et al., Optica 4, 356-360 (2017)

[4] Kuhn et al., Nat. Commun. 8, 1670 (2017)

[5] Stickler et al., Phys. Rev. A 94, 033818 (2016)