Quantum metrology and its application in biology

MA Taylor, WP Bowen - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Quantum metrology provides a route to overcome practical limits in sensing devices. It holds
particular relevance to biology, where sensitivity and resolution constraints restrict …

[HTML][HTML] Passive and active microrheology for biomedical systems

Y Mao, P Nielsen, J Ali - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microrheology encompasses a range of methods to measure the mechanical properties of
soft materials. By characterizing the motion of embedded microscopic particles …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces

D Wang, F Liu, T Liu, S Sun, Q He, L Zhou - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Vectorial optical fields (VOFs) exhibiting arbitrarily designed wavefronts and polarization
distributions are highly desired in photonics. However, current methods to generate them …

Biological measurement beyond the quantum limit

MA Taylor, J Janousek, V Daria, J Knittel, B Hage… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Dynamic biological measurements require low light levels to avoid damaging the specimen.
With this constraint on optical power, quantum noise fundamentally limits the measurement …

Advances in the microrheology of complex fluids

TA Waigh - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
New developments in the microrheology of complex fluids are considered. Firstly the
requirements for a simple modern particle tracking microrheology experiment are …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling of the dynamic polarizability of macromolecules for single-molecule optical biosensing

LS Booth, EV Browne, NP Mauranyapin, LS Madsen… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The structural dynamics of macromolecules is important for most microbiological processes,
from protein folding to the origins of neurodegenerative disorders. Noninvasive …

Subdiffraction-limited quantum imaging within a living cell

MA Taylor, J Janousek, V Daria, J Knittel, B Hage… - Physical Review X, 2014 - APS
We report both subdiffraction-limited quantum metrology and quantum-enhanced spatial
resolution for the first time in a biological context. Nanoparticles are tracked with quantum …

Stochastic processes in a confining harmonic potential in the presence of static and dynamic measurement noise

PG Meyer, R Metzler - New Journal of Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the overdamped dynamics of different stochastic processes, including
Brownian motion and autoregressive processes, continuous time random walks, fractional …

Rheological study of soft matters: a review of microrheology and microrheometers

W Liu, C Wu - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Rheological properties of soft matter like polymer solutions/gels, colloidal dispersions, and
biological materials have been extensively studied by macroscopic methods. Recently, a set …

SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus and nanoscale particles trapping, tracking and tackling using nanoaperture optical tweezers: A recent advances review

R Kumar, K Gulia, MP Chaudhary… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.thesciencein.org
Recent advances in nanoscale technologies have provided advanced tools that can be
easily used to trap, track, and manipulate individual nanoscale particles and viruses such as …