Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Gravity is the weakest of all known fundamental forces and poses some of the most
important open questions to modern physics: it remains resistant to unification within the …

This book is based on the 13 review articles written by subject experts and published in
2014 in the Journal Reviews of Adhesion and Adhesives. The rationale for publication of this …

We describe a method for sensing short range forces using matter-wave interference in
dielectric nanospheres. When compared with atom interferometers, the larger mass of the …

We propose an experiment to measure the free fall acceleration of neutral antihydrogen
atoms in order to test the Weak Equivalence Principle. The originality of this path is to first …

We study the interaction between a nanoparticle and the surface of a solid in the framework
of the local-field method. Assuming that the nanoparticle is characterized by a finite …

We derive analytic expressions for the classical Casimir-Polder free energy and force for a
polarizable (magnetizable) atom (microparticle) interacting with thin films, made of different …

We study the finite temperature Casimir interaction between a cylinder and a plate using the
exact formula derived from the Matsubara representation and the functional determinant …

The dynamics of a matter-wave soliton bouncing on the reflecting surface (atomic mirror)
under the effect of gravity has been studied by analytical and numerical means. The …