<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Unidirectional inter-axial coupling and spontaneous cooling in non-Hermitian dynamics of a levitated particle</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Optica, OPTICA</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://opg.optica.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-13-9-1759</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1759–1768</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Non-Hermitian dynamics in open systems can give rise to a variety of fascinating non-equilibrium phenomena, ranging from symmetry-breaking transitions to directional energy flow. Parity–time (PT) symmetry breaking determines the occurrence of dynamical instabilities, while non-reciprocal interactions enable asymmetric energy transfer between modes. Here, we present a versatile optomechanical platform based on a vacuum-levitated nanoparticle that allows full control over the coupling of its mechanical modes, including non-reciprocal and non-conservative interactions. By engineering the spatial ellipticity and polarization of the trapping beam, we continuously tune the system from a reciprocal to a strongly non-reciprocal regime. This allows us to observe PT-symmetry phase transitions and to isolate a unidirectional regime in which one mode remains effectively decoupled while driving the other. We demonstrate that elliptical polarization of the trapping beam spanning unidirectional and reciprocal regimes induces asymmetric intermodal energy transfer. This results in the spontaneous cooling of one mechanical mode without external feedback. Both modes share identical mass, size, charge, and optical environment, providing a clean and robust setting for exploring non-Hermitian dynamics, exceptional-point physics, and energy redistribution in minimal systems. Combined with recent advances in ground-state cooling, our results provide a direct route to realizing non-Hermitian phenomena in the quantum regime.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">PT-like phase transition and limit cycle oscillations in non-reciprocally coupled optomechanical oscillators levitated in vacuum</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat. Phys.</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2024</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02590-1</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1–7</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Nanoparticles levitated in an optical trap provide a versatile platform to study mechanical oscillators in a controlled environment with tuneable parameters. Recently, it has become possible to couple two of these optomechanical oscillators. Here we demonstrate the collective non-Hermitian dynamics of such a pair of non-conservatively coupled oscillators. We take advantage of the tunability of the optical interactions between the particles in our system and set the optical interaction between the particles to be purely non-reciprocal. By continuously varying the relative power of the trapping beams, we take the system through a transition similar to a parity–time phase transition. A Hopf bifurcation at a critical point results in the formation of collective limit cycle oscillations, resembling those observed in phonon lasers. These coupled levitated oscillators provide a platform for exceptional point optomechanical sensing and can be extended to multi-particle systems, paving the way for the development of topological optomechanical media.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Publisher: Nature Publishing Group&lt;/p&gt;</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Synchronization of spin-driven limit cycle oscillators optically levitated in vacuum</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nature Communications</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41129-5</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5441</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">All-optical sub-Kelvin sympathetic cooling of a levitated microsphere in vacuum</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Optica</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sep</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://opg.optica.org/optica/abstract.cfm?URI=optica-9-9-1000</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1000–1002</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;We demonstrate all-optical sympathetic cooling of a laser-trapped microsphere to sub-Kelvin temperatures, mediated by optical binding to a feedback-cooled adjacent particle. Our study opens prospects for multi-particle quantum entanglement and sensing in levitated optomechanics.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stochastic Hopf bifurcations in vacuum optical tweezers</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Phys. Rev. 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In particular, we track and analyze the driven stochastic motion of a carefully designed micro-propeller rotating unevenly in an optical tweezers, in water. In this intermediate regime, the second law of macroscopic thermodynamics is satisfied only as an ensemble average, and individual trajectories can be temporarily associated with decreases in entropy. We show that our light driven micro-propeller satisfies an appropriate fluctuation theorem that constrains the probability with which these apparent violations of the second law occur. 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