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SYQR: Symposium Quantum Optics and Quantum Information with Rigid Rotors

SYQR 1: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information with Rigid Rotors 1

SYQR 1.2: Invited Talk

Friday, March 10, 2023, 11:30–12:00, E415

Quantum rotations of nanoparticles — •Benjamin A. Stickler — University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Rotations of rigid bodies exhibit pronounced quantum phenomena that do not exist for their center-of-mass motion. By levitating nanoparticles in ultra-high vacuum, researchers are developing a promising platform for observing and exploiting these quantum effects in an unexplored mass and size regime [1]. This talk will discuss the prospects of observing orientational quantum revivals [2], quantum tennis racket flips [3], and spin-controlled interference [4] with nanoscale particles. I will review how rotational cooling into the quantum regime can be achieved [5] and how environmental decoherence impacts quantum experiments with nanoscale rotors [6].

[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] Rusconi, Perdriat, Hétet, Romero-Isart, and Stickler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 093605 (2022). [5] Schäfer, Rudolph, Hornberger, and Stickler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163603 (2021). [6] Stickler, Papendell, and Hornberger, Phys. Rev. A 94, 033828 (2016).