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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3374
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/J01771X/1, EP/G061688/1]
- Royal Society Wolfson-Merit Award
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G061688/1, EP/J01771X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J01771X/1, EP/G061688/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Quantum state preparation of mesoscopic objects is a powerful playground for the elucidation of many physical principles. The field of cavity optomechanics aims to create these states through laser cooling and by minimizing state decoherence. Here we demonstrate simultaneous optical trapping and rotation of a birefringent microparticle in vacuum using a circularly polarized trapping laser beam-a microgyroscope. We show stable rotation rates up to 5 MHz. Coupling between the rotational and translational degrees of freedom of the trapped microgyroscope leads to the observation of positional stabilization in effect cooling the particle to 40 K. We attribute this cooling to the interaction between the gyroscopic directional stabilization and the optical trapping field.
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