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

Over the recent decades there has been tremendous progress in understanding and
controlling friction between surfaces in relative motion. However the complex nature of the …

Stochastic resetting is prevalent in natural and man-made systems, giving rise to a long
series of nonequilibrium phenomena. Diffusion with stochastic resetting serves as a …

We propose a search for low mass dark matter particles through momentum recoils caused
by their scattering from trapped, nanometer-scale objects. Our projections show that even …

We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …

Massive growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing,
separating, ordering, concentrating, and mixing of microparticles. Microfluidic systems …

The ability to manipulate small fluid droplets, colloidal particles and single cells with the
precision and parallelization of modern-day computer hardware has profound applications …

We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that a colloidal sphere trapped in a
static optical tweezer does not come to equilibrium, but rather reaches a steady state in …

The dynamical onset of lane formation is studied in experiments with binary complex
plasmas under microgravity conditions. Small microparticles are driven and penetrate into a …

Holographic optical tweezers (HOT) is a programmable technique used for manipulation of
microsized samples. In combination with computer-generation holography (CGH), a spatial …