Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trap** and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Fluctuations in the DNA double helix: A critical review

MD Frank-Kamenetskii, S Prakash - Physics of life reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A critical overview of the extensive literature on fluctuations in the DNA double helix is
presented. Both theory and experiment are comprehensively reviewed and analyzed …

Investigation of thermal properties of DNA structure with precise atomic arrangement via equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics approaches

NA Jolfaei, NA Jolfaei, M Hekmatifar, A Piranfar… - Computer methods and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Thermal conductivity of Deoxyribonucleic acid
molecules is important for nanotechnology applications. Theoretical simulations based on …

Photothermal heating of plasmonic nanoantennas: influence on trapped particle dynamics and colloid distribution

S Jones, D Andren, P Karpinski, M Kall - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic antennas are well-known and extremely powerful platforms for optical
spectroscopy, sensing, and manipulation of molecules and nanoparticles. However …

Heat-transfer resistance at solid–liquid interfaces: a tool for the detection of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA

B Van Grinsven, N Vanden Bon, H Strauven… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In this article, we report on the heat-transfer resistance at interfaces as a novel, denaturation-
based method to detect single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA. We observed that a …

Accumulative reservoir construction: Bridging continuously relaxed and periodically refreshed extended reservoirs

G Wójtowicz, A Purkayastha, M Zwolak, MM Rams - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The simulation of open many-body quantum systems is challenging, requiring methods to
both handle exponentially large Hilbert spaces and represent the influence of (infinite) …

Open-system tensor networks and Kramers' crossover for quantum transport

G Wójtowicz, JE Elenewski, MM Rams, M Zwolak - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Tensor networks are a powerful tool for many-body ground states with limited entanglement.
These methods can, nonetheless, fail for certain time-dependent processes–such as …

Sulfur-substitution-induced base flip** in the DNA duplex

Z Sun, X Wang, JZH Zhang, Q He - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Base flip** is widely observed in a number of important biological processes. The genetic
codes deposited inside the DNA duplex become accessible to external agents upon base …