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

In any medium there are fluctuations due to temperature or due to the quantum nature of its
constituents. If a material body is immersed into such a medium, its shape and the properties …

In develo** micro-and nanodevices, stiction between their parts, that is, static friction
preventing surfaces in contact from moving, is a well-known problem. It is caused by the …

We review recent advances in the theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of critical
Casimir forces in soft matter, with particular emphasis on their relevance for the structures of …

The manipulation of microscopic objects requires precise and controllable forces and
torques. Recent advances have led to the use of critical Casimir forces as a powerful tool …

We develop a framework for the stochastic thermodynamics of a probe coupled to a
fluctuating medium with spatio-temporal correlations, described by a scalar field. For a …

The overdamped dynamics of a particle is in general affected by its interaction with the
surrounding medium, especially out of equilibrium, and when the latter develops spatial and …

Fluctuations are omnipresent; they exist in any matter, due either to its quantum nature or to
its nonzero temperature. In the current review, we briefly cover the quantum electrodynamic …

We study the nonequilibrium relaxational dynamics of a probe particle linearly coupled to a
thermally fluctuating scalar field and subject to a harmonic potential, which provides a …

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