Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

Optical tweezers, tools based on strongly focused light, enable optical trapping,
manipulation, and characterisation of a wide range of microscopic and nanoscopic …

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

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations yield a lower bound on entropy production in terms of
the mean and fluctuations of a current. We derive their general form for systems under …

We provide a strategy for the exact inference of the average as well as the fluctuations of the
entropy production in nonequilibrium systems in the steady state, from the measurements of …

Stochastic processes offer a fundamentally different paradigm of dynamics than
deterministic processes that one is most familiar with, the most prominent example of the …

We derive an Itô stochastic differential equation for entropy production in nonequilibrium
Langevin processes. Introducing a random-time transformation, entropy production obeys a …

According to the laws of thermodynamics, no heat engine can beat the efficiency of a Carnot
cycle. This efficiency traditionally comes with vanishing power output and practical designs …

Stochastic thermodynamics has revolutionized our understanding of heat engines operating
in finite time. Recently, numerous studies have considered the optimal operation of …

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 …