READ ME File For 'Datasets for {An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space}'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3411

Date that the file was created: May 2025

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GENERAL INFORMATION
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ReadMe Author: Jack Homans, University of Southampton, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8413-0766

Date of data collection: 06-12-2024 (magnetic), 07-02-2025 (optical)

Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton

Related projects:
See https://phyweb.phys.soton.ac.uk/matterwave/html/

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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: None

Recommended citation for the data: None

This dataset supports the publication:
AUTHORS: Jack Homans, Elliot Simcox, Jakub Wardak, Laura da Palma Barbara, Tim M. Fuchs, Rafael Muffato, Florence Concepcion, Andrei Dragomir, Christian Vogt, Peter Nisbet-Jones, Christopher Bridges, Hendrik Ulbricht
TITLE: An experimental platform for levitated mechanics in space
JOURNAL: IOP Quantum Science and Technology
PAPER DOI IF KNOWN:

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None

Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: None


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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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This dataset contains:

[magnetic_trap_save_4.bin, C1--1-_aopc_22_0.456mbar--00011.trc]


Relationship between files, if important for context: First data set is a sample data set for the magnetic trap. Second data set is a sample data set for the optical trap.

Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: None

If data was derived from another source, list source: None

If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made: N/A



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METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION
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Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: See article

Methods for processing the data: Data processed using custom code and optoanalysis python package.

Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: Optical trap data can be opened with optoanalysis. Magnetic trap data
can be opened with custom python code.

Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: None

Environmental/experimental conditions: Stated in dataset name or in article

Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: None

People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Jack Homans, Jakub Wardak


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DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION <Create sections for each datafile or set, as appropriate>
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Number of variables: Optical data - 2, magnetic data - 5

Number of cases/rows: Optical data - 5000002, magnetic data 1048570

Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: Time-voltage data measured for both data sets
   
Missing data codes: None

Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: None