A silica nanorotor is trapped by an optical tweezer (red) inside an optical resonator (blue). Cooled, the rotor alignment in the trapping potential approaches its quantum uncertainty limit (white cone). (IMAGE)

University of Vienna

A silica nanorotor is trapped by an optical tweezer (red) inside an optical resonator (blue). Cooled, the rotor alignment in the trapping potential approaches its quantum uncertainty limit (white cone).

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A silica nanorotor is trapped by an optical tweezer (red) inside an optical resonator (blue). Cooled, the rotor alignment in the trapping potential approaches its quantum uncertainty limit (white cone).

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University of Vienna/Stephan Troyer

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