Interaction Between an Optically Levitated Nanoparticle and Its Thermal Image: Internal Thermometry via Displacement Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11642v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:19:50 GMT
• Title: Interaction Between an Optically Levitated Nanoparticle and Its Thermal Image: Internal Thermometry via Displacement Sensing
• Authors: Thomas Agrenius, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Patrick Maurer, Oriol Romero-Isart
• Abstract summary: displacement sensing of an optically levitated nanoparticles in front of a surface can be used to measure the induced dipole-dipole interaction. We argue that it is experimentally feasible to use displacement sensing of a levitated nanoparticles in front of a surface as an internal thermometer.
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• Abstract: We propose and theoretically analyze an experiment where displacement sensing of an optically levitated nanoparticle in front of a surface can be used to measure the induced dipole-dipole interaction between the nanoparticle and its thermal image. This is achieved by using a surface that is transparent to the trapping light but reflective to infrared radiation, with a reflectivity that can be time modulated. This dipole-dipole interaction relies on the thermal radiation emitted by a silica nanoparticle having sufficient temporal coherence to correlate the reflected radiation with the thermal fluctuations of the dipole. The resulting force is orders of magnitude stronger than the thermal gradient force and it strongly depends on the internal temperature of the nanoparticle for a particle-to-surface distance greater than two micrometers. We argue that it is experimentally feasible to use displacement sensing of a levitated nanoparticle in front of a surface as an internal thermometer. Experimental access to the internal physics of a levitated nanoparticle in vacuum is crucial to understand the limitations that decoherence poses to current efforts devoted to prepare a nanoparticle in a macroscopic quantum superposition state.

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