Optical pulling forces and their applications

H Li, Y Cao, LM Zhou, X Xu, T Zhu, Y Shi… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical manipulations utilizing the mechanical effect of light have been indispensable in
various disciplines. Among those various manipulations, optical pulling has emerged …

Perspective on light-induced transport of particles: from optical forces to phoretic motion

P Zemánek, G Volpe, A Jonáš… - Advances in Optics and …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

Vortex beams of atoms and molecules

A Luski, Y Segev, R David, O Bitton, H Nadler… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Angular momentum plays a central role in quantum mechanics, recurring in every length
scale from the microscopic interactions of light and matter to the macroscopic behavior of …

Entanglement beating in free space through spin–orbit coupling

E Otte, C Rosales-Guzmán, B Ndagano… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
It is well known that the entanglement of a quantum state is invariant under local unitary
transformations. This rule dictates, for example, that the entanglement of internal degrees of …

Photonic tractor beams: a review

W Ding, T Zhu, LM Zhou, CW Qiu - Advanced Photonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Usually, an unfocused light beam, such as a paraxial Gaussian beam, can exert a force on
an object along the direction of light propagation, which is known as light pressure …

Optical pulling at macroscopic distances

X Li, J Chen, Z Lin, J Ng - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Optical tractor beams, proposed in 2011 and experimentally demonstrated soon after, offer
the ability to pull particles against light propagation. It has attracted much research and …

[HTML][HTML] Could the primordial radiation be responsible for vanishing of topological defects?

T Romańczukiewicz - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the motion of domain walls in 1+ 1, 2+ 1 and briefly 3+ 1 d relativistic ϕ 6 model
with three equal vacua in the presence of radiation. We show that even small fluctuations …

Propulsion Mechanisms of Light‐Driven Plasmonic Colloidal Micromotors

J Frueh, S Rutkowski, T Si, M Gai, C Gao… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal micromotors are important candidates for a wide spectrum of applications, ranging
from medicine to environmental remediation. Thus far, the propulsion force determination …

Phase shift approach for engineering desired radiation force: Acoustic pulling force example

XD Fan, L Zhang - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Phase shifts from scattering are used to analyze and engineer acoustic radiation forces. With
the aid of phase shifts, analytical results for acoustic radiation forces can be simplified into …

Radiation forces and torques in optics and acoustics

I Toftul, S Golat, FJ Rodríguez-Fortuño, F Nori… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mechanical action of various kinds of waves have been known for several centuries. The first
tide of scientific interest in wave-induced forces and torques emerged at the end of the …