Three-Dimensional and Selective Displacement Sensing of a Levitated Nanoparticle via Spatial Mode Decomposition

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Hauptverfasser: Dinter, Thomas, Roberts, Reece, Volz, Thomas, Schmidt, Mikolaj K., Laplane, Cyril
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author Dinter, Thomas
Roberts, Reece
Volz, Thomas
Schmidt, Mikolaj K.
Laplane, Cyril
author_facet Dinter, Thomas
Roberts, Reece
Volz, Thomas
Schmidt, Mikolaj K.
Laplane, Cyril
contents We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel detection method that significantly improves the precision of real-time measurement of the three-dimensional displacement of a levitated dipolar scatterer. Our technique relies on spatial mode sorting of the light scattered by the levitated object, allowing us to selectively extract the position information of all translational degrees of freedom with minimal losses. To this end, we collect all the light back-scattered from a levitated nanoparticle using a parabolic mirror and couple it into a spatial mode sorter. We measure displacement sensitivities ($\sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, x}}, \sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, y}}, \sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, z}}$) $=$ (1.7, 2.4, 1.0) $\times$ $10^{-14}$ m/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ below the zero-point motion ($x_{\mathrm{zpm}}, y_{\mathrm{zpm}}, z_{\mathrm{zpm}}$) $=$ (2.2, 2.4, 1.6) $\times$ $10^{-12}$ m of the levitated particle considered here. In the regime where environmental decoherence is not limited by gas collision we estimate that our method can reach measurement efficiencies of $(η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{x}}, η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{y}}, η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{z}}) = (0.13, 0.18, 0.33) > 1/9$, which would enable the 3D motional quantum ground state of a levitated optomechanical system.
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spellingShingle Three-Dimensional and Selective Displacement Sensing of a Levitated Nanoparticle via Spatial Mode Decomposition
Dinter, Thomas
Roberts, Reece
Volz, Thomas
Schmidt, Mikolaj K.
Laplane, Cyril
Optics
Quantum Physics
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel detection method that significantly improves the precision of real-time measurement of the three-dimensional displacement of a levitated dipolar scatterer. Our technique relies on spatial mode sorting of the light scattered by the levitated object, allowing us to selectively extract the position information of all translational degrees of freedom with minimal losses. To this end, we collect all the light back-scattered from a levitated nanoparticle using a parabolic mirror and couple it into a spatial mode sorter. We measure displacement sensitivities ($\sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, x}}, \sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, y}}, \sqrt{S_{\mathrm{imp}, z}}$) $=$ (1.7, 2.4, 1.0) $\times$ $10^{-14}$ m/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ below the zero-point motion ($x_{\mathrm{zpm}}, y_{\mathrm{zpm}}, z_{\mathrm{zpm}}$) $=$ (2.2, 2.4, 1.6) $\times$ $10^{-12}$ m of the levitated particle considered here. In the regime where environmental decoherence is not limited by gas collision we estimate that our method can reach measurement efficiencies of $(η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{x}}, η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{y}}, η_{^{\mathrm{tot}}}^{_{z}}) = (0.13, 0.18, 0.33) > 1/9$, which would enable the 3D motional quantum ground state of a levitated optomechanical system.
title Three-Dimensional and Selective Displacement Sensing of a Levitated Nanoparticle via Spatial Mode Decomposition
topic Optics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08827