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A Superconducting Levitating Oscillator with < 1 $μ$Hz Resonance Linewidth

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09632v1
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 16:21:44 GMT
Title: A Superconducting Levitating Oscillator with < 1 $μ$Hz Resonance Linewidth
Abstract summary: Experimental setup is highly tunable and is compatible with adiabatic nuclear demagnetisation.<n>We demonstrate the capability of our device by measuring drag from $3$He impurities in superfluid $4$He at a level of $sim10-8$ with the drag force in the femtonewton range.
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Abstract: Experiments aimed at quantifying the interface between quantum and classical physics necessarily require a high degree of isolation from the environment: wavefunction collapse and quantum gravity effects at laboratory scales are predicted to be very subtle. Ideally, such tests would be performed in a closed system at extremely low temperatures in order to rule out any external influence and thermal fluctuations. Cryogenic levitated macroscopic bodies are excellent candidates for an accurate laboratory approximation of such systems, as a tether to another body would violate the requirement for the system to be fully closed. Here we report a significant milestone on the way to a practically suitable approximation of such closed system. We have built a milligram-mass superconducting oscillator operating at millikelvin temperatures showing extremely low dissipation rate, with the oscillator ring-down time exceeding 110 hours. This corresponds to the resonance linewidth of less than 0.8 $μ$Hz. The experimental setup is highly tunable and is compatible with adiabatic nuclear demagnetisation, promising even lower temperatures and lower dissipation levels in the future. We demonstrate the capability of our device by measuring drag from $^3$He impurities in superfluid $^4$He at a level of $\sim10^{-8}$ with the drag force in the femtonewton range.

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