Revealing the velocity uncertainties of a levitated particle in the quantum ground state

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16598v2
• Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 00:51:13 GMT
• Title: Revealing the velocity uncertainties of a levitated particle in the quantum ground state
• Authors: M. Kamba and K. Aikawa
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate time-of-flight measurements for an ultracold levitated nanoparticles and reveal its velocity for the translational motion brought to the quantum ground state. We discover that the velocity distributions obtained with repeated release-and-recapture measurements are significantly broadened via librational motions of the nanoparticles.
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• Abstract: We demonstrate time-of-flight measurements for an ultracold levitated nanoparticle and reveal its velocity for the translational motion brought to the quantum ground state. We discover that the velocity distributions obtained with repeated release-and-recapture measurements are significantly broadened via librational motions of the nanoparticle. Under feedback cooling on all the librational motions, we recover the velocity distributions in reasonable agreement with an expectation from the occupation number, with approximately twice the width of the quantum limit. The strong impact of librational motions on the translational motions is understood as a result of the deviation between the libration center and the center of mass, induced by the asymmetry of the nanoparticle. Our results elucidate the importance of the control over librational motions and establish the basis for exploring quantum mechanical properties of levitated nanoparticles in terms of their velocity.

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