Coherent oscillations of a levitated birefringent microsphere in vacuum driven by nonconservative rotation-translation coupling
Yoshihiko Arita, Stephen H. Simpson, Pavel Zemánek, Kishan Dholakia
Abstract
at room temperature. Last, nonequilibrium motion is seen to be a generic feature of optical vacuum traps, arising for any system with symmetry lower than that of a perfect isotropic microsphere in a Gaussian trap.
Topics & Concepts
Rotation (mathematics)BirefringenceMicrosphereCoupling (piping)Translation (biology)PhysicsClassical mechanicsMechanicsMaterials scienceOpticsChemistryComposite materialComputer scienceEngineeringGeneChemical engineeringArtificial intelligenceMessenger RNABiochemistryOrbital Angular Momentum in OpticsMechanical and Optical ResonatorsMicrofluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies