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+title: Levitated Optomechanics, Swansea
+type: docs
+toc: false
+---
+
+![Singleton Campus](/img/aerial_singleton.jpg)
+
+The Optomechanics Group is based in the [Department of Physics](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics) within the [Faculty of Science and Engineering at Swansea University](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/science-and-engineering/).
+
+Optomechanics uses light to control nanoscale motion, offers quantum-limited control over mesoscopic devices, and builds on mature techniques from cold atom physics.
+
+Research within the group spans technology development, theoretical work on optical scattering and information, and Bayesian inference and experiment design for matterwave interferometry.
+
+## Space and matterwave interferometry
+
+<figure class="fig-float right logo">
+  <a href="http://maqro-mission.org"><img src="/img/MAQRO.png" alt="MAQRO"></a>
+</figure>
+
+Our interest in optomechanics in space began with **MAQRO**, a proposal for a medium-sized space mission to harness long free-fall times for matterwave interferometry with nanoparticles. James Bateman's work in levitated optomechanics started around 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher with [Prof. Hendrik Ulbricht](https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x5wz8/professor-hendrik-ulbricht) at the University of Southampton, who introduced him to the field and to MAQRO. His work on near-field interferometry ([Bateman et al., *Nat. Commun.* **5**, 4788 (2014)](https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5788)) set out the scheme that MAQRO adopted as the basis for its matterwave interferometer. He is a co-author of the MAQRO research campaign paper ([Kaltenbaek et al., *Quantum Sci. Technol.* **8**, 014006 (2023)](https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aca3cd)) and served twice as a consulting scientist at ESA's ESTEC during the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) study of the mission. MAQRO remains a long-term goal for fundamental physics in space. The group's current work focuses on nearer-term missions and experiments such as [LEVITAS]({{< relref "/projects/levitas" >}}), which develop the techniques and technology that a mission like MAQRO will draw upon. Further reading on MAQRO is collected on the [MAQRO publications page](http://maqro-mission.org/publications/).
+
+## Past networks
+
+The group was part of [**LeviNet**](https://www.levinet.org/) (Levitation Network for Advanced Quantum Technologies) and [**INSQT**](https://www.insqt.ac.uk/) (International Network for Space Quantum Technologies), which supported the UK and international levitated optomechanics and space quantum technologies communities. LeviNet supported [Shaun Laing]({{< relref "/people/shaun-laing">}}) on a Scientific Mission to the [Geraci Research Group at Northwestern University](https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/andrew-geraci/index.html).
+
+## Contact
+
+Dr James Bateman, [j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk?subject=levitation.wales)
+
+Department of Physics, Singleton Campus, Swansea University, SA2 8PP, UK
+
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+---
+title: People
+weight: 20
+---
+
+{{< people >}}
+
+{{< collaborators >}}
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+---
+title: Chris Dawson
+surname: Dawson
+role: PhD 2020
+alumnus: true
+weight: 70
+links:
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-j-dawson/
+---
+
+
+**PhD student, to 2020**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Chris completed his PhD in the group in 2020, [*Spectral Analysis and Parameter Estimation in Levitated Optomechanics*](/publications/theses/2020_Chris_Dawson.pdf), with work on spectral estimation for levitated optomechanics (Dawson & Bateman, *J. Opt. Soc. Am. B* **36**, 1565 (2018)).
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+---
+title: James Bateman
+surname: Bateman
+role: Group lead
+weight: 10
+links:
+  - name: ORCID
+    url: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4885-2539
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bateman-549667122/
+---
+
+<figure class="fig-float right portrait">
+  <img src="photo.jpg" alt="James Bateman">
+</figure>
+
+**Group lead / principal investigator**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+James leads the Optomechanics Group in the [Department of Physics](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/physics) at Swansea University. He is principal investigator on the group's current projects: [LEVITAS]({{< relref "/projects/levitas" >}}), [LOTIS]({{< relref "/projects/lotis" >}}), [OSIAN]({{< relref "/projects/osian" >}}), and [NAMIQOS]({{< relref "/projects/namiqos" >}}).
+
+His research spans levitated optomechanics, matterwave interferometry, and Bayesian inference and experiment design, with a particular interest in taking levitated optomechanics into space.
+
+**Contact:** [j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk](mailto:j.e.bateman@swansea.ac.uk)
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+---
+title: Karol Szuba-Jabłoński
+surname: Szuba-Jablonski
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+alumnus: true
+weight: 65
+links:
+  - name: LinkedIn
+    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karol-szuba-jablonski/
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Karol was a postdoctoral researcher in the group, working on [LOTIS]({{< relref "/projects/lotis" >}}).
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+---
+title: Matthew Edmonds
+surname: Edmonds
+role: PhD candidate
+weight: 30
+---
+
+
+**PhD candidate**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Matthew is a PhD candidate in the Optomechanics Group, working on [OSIAN]({{< relref "/projects/osian" >}}) (optomechanical sensing for inertial, accelerometry, and navigation).
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+---
+title: Mobin Motaharifar
+surname: Motaharifar
+role: PhD candidate
+weight: 40
+---
+
+
+**PhD candidate**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Mobin is a PhD candidate in the Optomechanics Group, working on [NAMIQOS]({{< relref "/projects/namiqos" >}}) (nanoparticle manipulation and integration for quantum optomechanical systems).
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+---
+title: Rafał Gajewski
+surname: Gajewski
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+weight: 20
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Rafał completed his PhD in the group in 2024, *Backaction suppression in levitated optomechanics*, and works on the theory and experiment of levitated optomechanics for space sensing.
+
+He is lead author of the group's work on backaction suppression using reflective boundaries ([*Phys. Rev. Research* **7**, 023041 (2025)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023041)) and of the [LEVITAS]({{< relref "/projects/levitas" >}}) sensing concept ([*Quantum Sci. Technol.* **11**, 045034 (2026)](https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ae99fb)).
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+---
+title: Shaun Laing
+surname: Laing
+role: Postdoctoral researcher
+alumnus: true
+weight: 60
+---
+
+
+**Postdoctoral researcher**
+
+{{< links >}}
+
+Shaun did his PhD in the group (2024, *Bayesian Inference and Collapse Models in Levitated Optomechanics*) and then continued as a postdoctoral researcher. His work centres on Bayesian inference and tests of fundamental physics with levitated systems.
+
+Through LeviNet he undertook a Scientific Mission to the [Geraci Research Group at Northwestern University](https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/andrew-geraci/index.html).
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+---
+title: Projects
+weight: 10
+---
+
+Current and recent projects in the group.
+
+{{< projects >}}
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+---
+title: "LEVITAS: Levitodynamics for Accurate Individual Particle Sensing in Space"
+linkTitle: LEVITAS
+weight: 10
+math: true
+---
+
+**LEVITAS** is a research programme developing an in-situ sensor for the rarefied media of the upper atmosphere, exosphere, and wider solar system. It grew out of an idea within [LOTIS]({{< relref "lotis" >}}), with partners at Warwick and Strathclyde.
+
+## Concept
+
+LEVITAS uses a single optically trapped nanoparticle, exposed to the space environment, as a sensor. Each gas particle from the surrounding medium that strikes it delivers a small momentum kick, and from the recoil the momentum of this impact is inferred.
+
+<figure class="fig-float right">
+  <img src="concept.png" alt="Trapped nanoparticle struck by incoming neutral particles">
+  <figcaption>A single optically trapped nanoparticle is struck by neutral particles from the surrounding medium.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+The nanoparticle's motion is continuously monitored with sufficient bandwidth and precision that these individual impact events are resolved.
+
+<figure class="fig-float left">
+  <img src="detection.png" alt="Individual impacts resolved as momentum kicks in the tracked motion">
+  <figcaption>Individual impacts (dashed lines) appear as momentum kicks in the tracked motion, and the momentum of each impact can be estimated.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+From the record of impacts, the density, velocity, temperature, and composition of the surrounding medium can be estimated. LEVITAS works from low Earth orbit out to exospheric distances, and reaches into very different regions of momentum space, for example the high-velocity neutral gas from the interstellar medium that penetrates the heliosphere and flows through the solar system.
+
+<figure class="fig-center">
+  <img src="histogram.png" alt="Recoil-momentum histogram of individual impacts, resolving atmospheric species">
+  <figcaption>Recoil momenta of individual impacts in a simulated 600 km July orbit, resolving atmospheric species (H, He, N, O, and N₂ and O₂ in the inset). Grey is the simulated data; the dashed curve is the maximum-likelihood fit.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+## Studies
+
+- **ESA** funded the *QSEO design study* for its Quantum Sensors for Earth Observation (QSEO) initiative, which established the LEVITAS concept and led to the paper below.
+- A follow-on **experimental study** is in preparation.
+
+## Paper
+
+R. Gajewski, R. T. Desai, J. Bateman, B. Eliasson, D. K. L. Oi, and A. Datta,
+*LEVITAS: Levitodynamics for accurate individual particle sensing in space*,
+[Quantum Science and Technology **11**, 045034 (2026)](https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ae99fb);
+preprint at [arXiv:2510.24524](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24524).
+
+## Related work
+
+Closely related ideas explored elsewhere:
+
+- Y.-H. Tseng et al., *Optomechanical Detection of Individual Gas Collisions*, [arXiv:2604.18371](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18371) (2026).
+- M. Perdriat et al., *Single-atom detection with a quantum-controlled mechanical oscillator*, [arXiv:2608.17656](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17656) (2026).
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+---
+title: "LOTIS: Levitated Optomechanical Technologies In Space"
+linkTitle: LOTIS
+funder: "UK Space Agency"
+funder_url: "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency"
+weight: 20
+---
+
+![LOTIS](press.jpg)
+
+LOTIS is a [UK Space Agency](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency) funded project, through their [Enabling Technologies Programme](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/enabling-technologies-programme), to develop levitated optomechanics for satellite applications.
+
+The project is led by Dr James Bateman (Swansea) with partners [Dr Daniel Oi (Strathclyde)](https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/oidanieldr/) and [Prof. Animesh Datta (Warwick)](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/animeshdatta/).
+
+## Project description
+
+Optomechanics is an emerging platform for quantum science and technology which controls and
+measures mechanical modes of nanoscale objects with light. Levitated optomechanics uses individual,
+optically levitated nanoparticles as the mechanical mode and promises applications from precision force
+measurement to quantum information processing and tests of fundamental physics.
+
+Optomechanics, more generally, includes micro-cantilevers, toroidal resonators, and silicon nitride
+nanobeams, offering a wealth of technologies which exploit the coherent interaction of light with the
+mechanical motion of nanoscale objects. Some of these systems have been cooled to their quantum
+mechanical ground state and theoretical and experimental work is driving fast towards demonstrating
+uniquely quantum properties such as entanglement and Schrödinger-cat states [Kanari-Naish 2022].
+Levitated Optomechanics offers additional opportunities because the mechanical mode is exceptionally
+well isolated from the environment. These mesoscopic systems are far larger than what we would normally
+consider the quantum domain but can nevertheless be driven into quantum mechanical states [Delić 2020],
+manipulated into squeezed states [Rashid 2016], and there is a clear strategy towards generating and
+observing stationary optomechanical entanglement [Magrini 2022].
+
+Cold atom technologies have demonstrated in recent years that these quantum effects are not just
+laboratory curiosities but can become a core sensing technology for terrestrial [Phillips 2022] and
+spaceborne applications [Carraz 2014]. These devices use matter-wave interferometers which are
+sensitive to inertial forces and gravity and offer a performance which, even at this early stage, is competitive
+with the best traditional gravimeters [Devani 2020]. The CASPA-ADM Mission [Siemes 2022] will bring this
+technology to the specific challenge of measuring the thermospheric mass density in a free-flying 6U
+CubeSat mission.
+
+Matter-wave interferometric sensitivity, such as to inertial and gravitational forces, depends on the mass
+and spatial superposition separation. Larger mass quantum objects are possible with levitated
+optomechanics than with cold atom technologies, by a factor $\sim10^6$. Possible schemes include near-field
+matter-wave interferometry [Bateman 2014] and non-linear cavity optomechanical coupling [Qvarfort 2018].
+Levitated Optomechanics offers complementary measurement modalities and hybrid devices are feasible.
+The MAQRO Collaboration, which includes around 50 scientists and engineers
+from across Europe, the USA, and Australia, identified the challenges to realising quantum levitated
+optomechanics in space. Recent studies of this proposed mission include the European Space Agency's
+Concurrent Design Facility study of the MAQRO Mission [MAQRO CDF 2018] and a summary is available
+in the NASA BPS 2023 Decadal Survey [Kaltenbaek 2022].
+
+The challenges identified by the ESA CDF Study of MAQRO include the stability of free-space optics, drag-
+free requirements, and cryogenics, many of which are not required for terrestrial levitated optomechanics
+and have been solved in principle by other missions, notably LISA Pathfinder and JWST. There remain
+challenges specific to levitated optomechanics and these are primarily the sourcing and conditioning of
+nanoparticles for loading into a focused laser beam at the centre of levitated optomechanical apparatus.
+
+LOTIS will address the specific levitated optomechanics challenges: Storage & dispensing (SD), Capture & conditioning
+(CC), and Optomechanical trapping (OT).
+
+The underpinning technologies of current levitated optomechanics studies have been developed for terrestrial,
+ambient-pressure, laboratory environments, where ample space, power, and heat dissipation is available.
+Much like the evolution seen in cold atom systems, it is by developing these technologies that we will
+enable a transition of levitated optomechanics from laboratory-based demonstrations into a useful space-
+based sensing platform.
+
+The principal challenge of the nanoparticle source is that the intermolecular forces between
+surfaces are very strong compared with the inertia of a typical nanoparticle. Consequently extremely high
+surface accelerations $\sim10^7$g are needed to liberate nanoparticles which are adhered to a substrate. LOTIS
+will explore adapting several distinct lab-based technologies which routinely achieve this goal so that they
+are suitable for inclusion on a small (CubeSat scale) satellite mission.
+
+Nanoparticles liberated from a surface, particularly if done so under high vacuum conditions, may require
+some pre-capture or conditioning before loading into the optomechanical laser trap. LOTIS will
+explore technologies to achieve this including adapting ion traps, and using several unique features of levitated optomechanics including that time-scales for their motion permit closed-loop feedback using fast electronics.
+
+Laboratory based levitated optomechanical experiments often employ highly mature, robust and laser
+technologies developed for fibre optical telecommunications. Historically, these devices have been
+optimised for extremely low noise which is advantageous but not strictly necessary for many
+optomechanical demonstrations. LOTIS will produce the minimum viable levitated optomechanical trap
+to fit within the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements of a typical small satellite.
+
+Furthermore, LOTIS will explore the extent to which novel protocols can be implemented with the
+hardware we design. This interaction will be two-way, with requirements of the sensing protocols
+informing the technology development where critical features are identified, and vice-versa. This is crucial
+as many existing theoretical studies consider idealisations without reference to the practicalities and
+imperfections inherent in real experiments.
+
+Finally, LOTIS will analyse the system integration requirements so that the hardware demonstrated can be
+understood in context and the next steps on the technology development roadmap can be clearly
+recognised.
+
+### References
+
+- [Bassi 2022] Bassi, Cacciapuoti, Capability et al.; NPJ Microgravity (2022) 8:49
+- [Bateman 2014] Bateman, Nimmrichter, Hornberger, Ulbricht; Nat. Commun (2014) 5:4788
+- [Carraz 2014] Carraz, Siemes, Massotti, et al.; Microgravity Sci. & Tech. 26:139-145
+- [Dawson 2019] Dawson & Bateman; JOSAB (2018) 36:1565
+- [Delic 2020] Delić, Reisenbauer, Dare, et al.; Science (2020) aba3993
+- [Devani 2020] Devani, Maddox, Renshaw et al.; CEAS Space Journal (2020) 12:539-549
+- [Gieseler 2012] Gieseler, Deutsch, Quidant, Novotny; PRL (2012) 109:103603
+- [Oi 2017] Oi, Ling, Grieve, Jennewein, Dinkelaker, Krutzik; Contemp. Phys. 58:25 (2017)
+- [Phillips 2022] Phillips, Wright, Riou, et al.; ADV Quantum Sci (2022) 4:024404
+- [Pontin 2022] Pontin & Monterio, arXiv:2208.09065
+- [Kaltenbaek 2022] Kaltenbaek et al.; arXiv:2202.01535
+- [Kanari-Naish 2022] Kanari-Naish, Clarif, Qvarfort, Vanner; Quantum Sci. & Tech (2022) 7:035012
+- [Magrini 2022] Magrini, Camarena-Chavez, Bach, et al.; PRL (2022) 129:053601
+- [MAQRO CDF 2018] QPPF: Quantum Physics Payload Platform (2018) CDF-183(C)
+- [Nikkhou 2021] Nikkhou, Hu, Sabin, Millen; Photonics (2021) 8:458
+- [Qvarfort 2018] Qvarfort, Serafini, Barker, Bose; Nat. Commun (2018) 9:3690
+- [Rashid 2016] Rashid, Tufarelli, Bateman, et al.; PRL (2016) 117:273601
+- [Siemes 2022] Siemes, Maddox, Carraz et al.; CEAS Space Journal (2022) 14:637-653
+- [Tebbenjohanns 2021] Tebbenjohanns, Mattana, Rossi et al.; Nature (2021) 595:378-382
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+---
+title: "NAMIQOS: Nanoparticle Manipulation and Integration for Quantum Optomechanical Systems"
+linkTitle: NAMIQOS
+funder: "EPSRC"
+funder_url: "https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/"
+weight: 40
+---
+
+**NAMIQOS** is a fully-funded 3 year PhD project funded through the EPSRC Quantum Technologies DTP.
+
+The project will run from October 2024 to September 2027.
+
+NAMIQOS builds on the group's earlier work on backaction suppression using reflective boundaries, reported in Rafał Gajewski's PhD thesis and in [Gajewski & Bateman, *Phys. Rev. Research* **7**, 023041 (2025)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.7.023041).
+
+## Background
+
+Optical forces arise when light, which has no mass yet carries momentum, is deflected through interaction with a material object. Lasers of power $\sim 100\,\text{mW}$ focused to a spot $\sim10\,\text{um}$ exert significant forces on objects $\sim100\,\text{nm}$ across.
+These nanoparticles can be levitated, in vacuum, and manipulated by modulating the optical field.
+Interferometric measurement and active feedback techniques allow these systems to approach quantum limits of position sensitivity.
+
+This research is part of the field of levitated optomechanics. Since the seminal demonstration of feedback cooling to sub-Kelvin temperatures [Gieseler 2012], the field has seen rapid and intense research, with recent achievements including cooling to the quantum-mechanical ground-state with optical cavities [Delić 2020] and in a cryogenic environment [Tebbenjohanns 2021].
+
+This project will explore development of practical devices based on levitated optomechanics including engineered isolation of specific mechanical modes and microfabrication techniques to source, prepare, and levitate nanoparticles in a compact, robust device. Microfabrication will be explored in collaboration with Swansea University's Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials [CISM]. CISM is a new £30M research and innovation facility on Swansea University Bay Campus which brings together semiconductor and advanced materials platforms and offers manufacturing grade ISO-qualified clean rooms for process development, backend materials integration and packaging capabilities, and access to advanced characterisation and analysis.
+
+The student will benefit from integration with the nascent Swansea Doctoral Training Initiative UK-SIFS: UK Semiconductor Industry Future Skills (CISM, Meredith) which will create a vibrant, multi-disciplinary cohort experience and provide highly practical training and links with industrial partners.
+
+Development of the robust platform provides a route towards quantum devices, where the particle is treated as a quantum mechanical object subject to superposition and decoherence. Establishing capability in this classical space is a necessary step towards realising fully quantum-limited devices, for which there are a number of exciting theoretical proposals in accelerometry with predicted sensitivities $\sim10^{-17}\,\text{g}/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ [Pontin 2018].
+
+### References
+
+- [Gieseler 2012] Gieseler, Deutsch, Quidant, Novotny; PRL 109 103603 (2012)
+- [Delić 2020] Delić et al.; Science 10.1126/science.aba3993 (2020)
+- [Pontin 2018] Pontin et al.; New J. Phys. 20 023017 (2018)
+- [Tebbenjohanns 2021] Tebbenjohanns et al.; Nature 595 378-382 (2021)
+- [CISM] [Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials](https://www.cism-swansea-semiconductors.co.uk/)
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+---
+title: "OSIAN: Optomechanical Sensing for Inertial, Accelerometry, and Navigation"
+linkTitle: OSIAN
+funder: "Dstl"
+funder_url: "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory"
+weight: 30
+---
+
+**OSIAN** is a 4 year DSTL-funded experimental PhD studentship opportunity including industrial placement at [DSTL Porton Down](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory) and possible placement at an Australian partner institution through [DST Australia](https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/).
+
+The project runs from October 2023 to September 2027.
+
+## Background
+
+Optical forces arise when light, which has no mass yet carries momentum, is deflected through interaction with a material object. Lasers of power $\sim 100\,\text{mW}$ focused to a spot $\sim10\,\text{um}$ exert significant forces on objects $\sim100\,\text{nm}$ across.
+These nanoparticles can be levitated, in vacuum, and manipulated by modulating the optical field.
+Interferometric measurement and active feedback techniques allow these systems to approach quantum limits of position sensitivity.
+
+This research is part of the field of levitated optomechanics. Since the seminal demonstration of feedback cooling to sub-Kelvin temperatures [Gieseler 2012], the field has seen rapid and intense research, with recent achievements including cooling to the quantum-mechanical ground-state with optical cavities [Delić 2020] and in a cryogenic environment [Tebbenjohanns 2021].
+
+This project will implement an accelerometer through a robust experimental platform, which bridges levitated optomechanics and fiber telecommunications technologies, such as lasers, modulators, and detectors.
+
+The immediate goals are to build classical devices, where the nanoparticle is treated as a point-like object undergoing Newtonian motion and subject to classical noise sources.
+Several interesting approaches from macroscopic, traditional devices translate and are promising in terms of sensitivity, robustness, reliability, and bandwidth.
+
+Development of the robust platform provides a route towards *quantum devices*, where the particle is treated as a quantum mechanical object subject to superposition and decoherence. Establishing capability in this classical space is a necessary step towards realising fully quantum-limited devices, for which there are a number of exciting theoretical proposals in accelerometry with predicted sensitivities $\sim10^{-17}\,\text{g}/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ [Pontin 2018].
+
+### References
+
+- [Gieseler 2012] Gieseler, Deutsch, Quidant, Novotny; PRL 109 103603 (2012)
+- [Delić 2020] Delić et al.; Science 10.1126/science.aba3993 (2020)
+- [Pontin 2018] Pontin et al.; New J. Phys. 20 023017 (2018)
+- [Tebbenjohanns 2021] Tebbenjohanns et al.; Nature 595 378-382 (2021)
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+---
+title: Publications
+weight: 30
+---
+
+## Papers
+
+{{< publications >}}
+
+## PhD theses
+
+- **Chris Dawson**, [*Spectral Analysis and Parameter Estimation in Levitated Optomechanics* (2020)](theses/2020_Chris_Dawson.pdf)
+- **Shaun Laing**, [*Bayesian Inference and Collapse Models in Levitated Optomechanics* (2024)](theses/2024_Shaun_Laing.pdf)
+- **Rafał Gajewski**, [*Backaction suppression in levitated optomechanics* (2024)](theses/2024_Rafal_Gajewski.pdf)