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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.053835
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- Heising-Simons Foundation
- NSF [1653232]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- ONR [N00014-18-1-2409]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1653232] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper demonstrates cooling of the center-of-mass motion of 10-mu m-diameter optically levitated silica spheres to an effective temperature of 50 +/- 22 mu K, achieved by minimizing the technical pointing noise of the trapping laser. This low noise leads to an acceleration and force sensitivity of 95 +/- 41 ng/root Hz (g = 9.8 m/s(2)) and 0.95 +/- 0.11 aN/root Hz, respectively, at frequencies near 50 Hz. This force sensitivity is comparable to that demonstrated for optically levitated nanospheres that are 10(4) times less massive, corresponding to an acceleration sensitivity that is several orders of magnitude better. It is further shown that under these conditions the spheres remain stably trapped at pressures of similar to 10(-7) mbar with no active cooling for periods longer than a day. Feedback cooling is still necessary in the moderate-pressure regime, motivating a comprehensive study of the loss mechanisms of the microspheres and providing better understanding of the requirements for feedback-free optical trapping in vacuum. This work can enable high-sensitivity searches for accelerations and forces acting on micron-sized masses, including those that could be produced by new physics beyond the standard model.
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