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Fundamental Tests of Physics with Optically Trapped Microspheres, 2013
Springer Theses Series
Author: Li Tongcang
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Glass microspheres were trapped in water, air, and vacuum with optical tweezers; and a detection system that can monitor the position of a trapped microsphere with Angstrom spatial resolution and microsecond temporal resolution was developed to study the Brownian motion of a trapped microsphere in air over a wide range of pressures. The instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle, in particular, was studied for the very first time, and the results provide direct verification of the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distribution and the energy equipartition theorem for a Brownian particle. For short time scales, the ballistic regime of Brownian motion is observed, in contrast to the usual diffusive regime.
In vacuum, active feedback is used to cool the center-of-mass motion of an optically trapped microsphere from room temperature to a minimum temperature of about 1.5 mK. This is an important step toward studying the quantum behaviors of a macroscopic particle trapped in vacuum.
Nominated by the University of Texas at Austin, USA, as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis
Represents an important step toward studying the quantum behaviors of a macroscopic particle trapped in vacuum
Presents the first measurement of the instantaneous velocity of a particle undergoing Brownian motion
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