Optomechanics

Presentations

• Magnetically Levitated Drops of Superfluid Helium: Measuring Brownian Motion and Optical Backaction

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yogesh Patil

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Yogesh Patil

    • Yale University

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• Quantum back-action evasion on a kg-scale mirror

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: B. Kabagoz, E. Oelker, D. Ganapathy, N. Mavalvala, V. Sudhir, "Quantum back-action evasion on a kg-scale mirror", (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Begüm Kabagöz

    • MIT Kavli Institute, LIGO Labs

  Authors

  • Begüm Kabagöz

    • MIT Kavli Institute, LIGO Labs

  • Eric Oelker

  • Dhruva Ganapathy

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Nergis Mavalvala

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Vivishek Sudhir

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Optomechanical dissipative soliton collider

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: M.T. Reeves, et. al, Nonlinear wave dynamics on a chip. arXiv:2504.13001, April 2025. (accepted to Science)

  Presenters

  • Nicole Luu

    • University of Queensland

  Authors

  • Nicole Luu

    • University of Queensland

  • Daniel Foshee

  • Jesse Slim

  • Warwick Bowen

  • Christopher Baker

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• Trilayer superconducting membranes for high-Q, stress-engineered vacuum-gap mechanics

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Jiaheng Wang

    • EPFL Institute of Physics (IPHYS)

  Authors

  • Jiaheng Wang

    • EPFL Institute of Physics (IPHYS)

  • Hugo Arbez

  • Xuxin Wang

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Mahdi Chegnizadeh

    • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Hao Li

    • EPFL

  • Marco Scigliuzzo

  • Shingo Kono

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Tobias Kippenberg

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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• On-Chip Frequency Noise Cancellation using Cavity Optomechanics for Nanomechanical Resonators

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.03301

  Presenters

  • Bhavesh Kharbanda

    • ETH Zurich

  Authors

  • Bhavesh Kharbanda

    • ETH Zurich

  • Amirali Arabmoheghi

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Letizia Catalini

  • Mohammadjafar Bereyhi

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Geena Benga

  • Alessio Zicoschi

  • Christian Degen

    • ETH Zurich

  • Tobias Kippenberg

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

  • Alexander Eichler

  • Nils Johan Engelsen

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

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• Pulsed Optomechanics with Microfabricated High-Overtone Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: Diamandi et al. Optomechanical control of long-lived bulk acoustic phonons in the quantum regime. Nat. Phys. 21, 1482–1488 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Tevfik Bulent Kanmaz

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Tevfik Bulent Kanmaz

    • Yale University

  • Sayan Ghosh

  • Hilel Hagai Diamandi

  • Navid Akbari

  • Christian Kang

  • Yizhi Luo

    • Yale University

  • Ryan Behunin

    • Northern Arizona University

  • Peter Rakich

    • Yale University

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• Opto-Acousto-Mechanical Sensing

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Purdy

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Thomas Purdy

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Christopher Ligato

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• Gravitational Wave Detection via a Planar Levitated Sensor in a Fabry-Perot Cavity

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrew Laeuger

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Andrew Laeuger

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Nancy Aggarwal

    • U C Davis

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• Visualizing Detection Efficiency in Optomechanical Scattering Measurements

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Youssef Tawfik

    • University of Pittsburgh

  Authors

  • Youssef Tawfik

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Thomas Purdy

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Shan Hao

    • University of Pittsburgh

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• Quantum control of mechanical systems via optimal nonharmonic potential engineering

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: [1] PTG, H. Pichler, C. A. Regal, O. Romero-Isart, Quantum control of continuous systems via nonharmonic potential modulation, Quantum 9, 1824 (2025)
  [2] M. Roda-Llordes, A. Riera-Campeny, D. Candoli, PTG, O. Romero-Isart, Macroscopic quantum superpositions via dynamics in a wide double-well potential, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023601 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Piotr Grochowski

    • Palacký University

  Authors

  • Piotr Grochowski

    • Palacký University

  • Hannes Pichler

    • University of Innsbruck

  • Cindy Regal

    • JILA, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Oriol Romero-Isart

    • University of Innsbruck

  • Marc Roda-Llordes

    • University of Innsbruck

  • Andreu Riera-Campeny

  • Davide Candoli

    • University of Bologna

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• Characterization of Linear Measurements in Cavity Optomechanics: Examples and Applications

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: F. Bemani, O. Černotík, R. Filip, arXiv:2508.21419.

  Presenters

  • Ondrej Cernotik

    • Palacky University

  Authors

  • Ondrej Cernotik

    • Palacky University

  • Foroud Bemani

  • Radim Filip

    • Palacky University

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• Optomechanics with Zero Residual Backaction Heating

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • SURANGANA SEN GUPTA

    • Ulm University

  Authors

  • SURANGANA SEN GUPTA

    • Ulm University

  • Bjoern Kubala

  • Joachim Ankerhold

    • University Ulm

  • Ciprian Padurariu

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• Artificial discovery of lattice models for wave transport

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: J. Landgraf, C. Wanjura, V. Peano, and F. Marquardt, arXiv:2508.10693.

  Presenters

  • Jonas Landgraf

    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Authors

  • Jonas Landgraf

    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  • Clara Wanjura

    • Max Planck Institute for Science of Light in Erlangen

  • Vittorio Peano

  • Florian Marquardt

    • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

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