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Liquid crystals allow for the real-time control of the polarization of light. We describe and provide some experimental examples of the types of general polarization transformations, including universal polarization transformations, that…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-14 Alicia Sit , Lambert Giner , Ebrahim Karimi , Jeff S. Lundeen

We report the optical trapping of multiple ions localized at individual lattice sites of a one-dimensional optical lattice. We observe a fivefold increase in robustness against axial DC-electric fields and an increase of the axial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Daniel Hoenig , Fabian Thielemann , Leon Karpa , Thomas Walker , Amir Mohammadi , Tobias Schaetz

Active colloids and liquid crystals are capable of locally converting the macroscopically-supplied energy into directional motion and promise a host of new applications, ranging from drug delivery to cargo transport at the mesoscale. Here…

In this article is proposed the general approach to determination the character of the interaction between colloidal particles in a different liquid crystals. The main idea of this approach are in the presentation of the colloidal particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-11 B. I. Lev

The position and motion of localized states of light in propagative geometries can be controlled via an adequate parameter modulation. Here, we show theoretically and experimentally that this process can be accurately described as the phase…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-11 B. Garbin , J. Javaloyes , G. Tissoni , S. Barland

Manipulation of the magnetization by external energies other than magnetic field, such as spin-polarized current1-4, electric voltage5,6 and circularly polarized light7-11 gives a paradigm shift in magnetic nanodevices. Magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Y. K. Takahashi , R. Medapalli , S. Kasai , J. Wang , K. Ishioka , S. H. Wee , O. Hellwig , K. Hono , E. E. Fullerton

Arrays of individual atoms trapped in optical microtraps with micrometer-scale sizes have emerged as a fundamental, versatile, and powerful platform for quantum sciences and technologies. This platform enables the bottom-up engineering of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-10 Shangguo Zhu , Yun Long , Wei Gou , Mingbo Pu , Xiangang Luo

Optical trapping has been proven to be an effective method of separating exciton-polariton condensates from the incoherent high-energy excitonic reservoir located at the pumping laser position. This technique has significantly improved the…

We study the transient response of a colloidal bead which is released from different heights and allowed to relax in the potential well of an optical trap. Depending on the initial potential energy, the system's time evolution shows…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-06-10 Manas Khan , A. K. Sood

Transitions from reversible to irreversible or fluctuating states above a critical density and shear amplitude have been extensively studied in non-thermal cyclically sheared suspensions and amorphous solids. Here, we propose that the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

The optical contrast in a phase change material is concomitant with its structural transition. We connect these two by first recognizing that Friedel oscillations couple electrons propagating in opposite directions and supply an additional…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-07 J C Martinez , R E Simpson

Superconducting atom chips have very significant advantages in realizing trapping structures for ultracold atoms compared to conventional atom chips. We extend these advantages further by developing the ability to dynamically tailor the…

Within the framework of the mode-coupling theory of super-cooled liquids, we investigate new phenomena in colloidal systems on approach to their glass transitions. When the inter-particle potential contains an attractive part, besides the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 K. A. Dawson , G. Foffi , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , E. Zaccarelli

We theoretically investigate into the effects of the incidence angles in light transmission of cholesteric liquid crystal two-layer sandwich structures with twist defects created by rotation of the one layer about the helical axis.The…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Roman I. Egorov , Alexei D. Kiselev

The pronounced light-matter interactions in photonic crystals make them interesting as opto-fludic "building blocks" for lab-on-a-chip applications. We show how conducting electrolytes cause dissipation and smearing of the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels Asger Mortensen , Simon Ejsing , Sanshui Xiao

Custom-designed colloidal particles in an optical tweezers act as light-mills in a fluid. In particular, aqueous suspensions of capped colloids, in which half of the surface is covered with metal layers, are investigated. Due to their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 F. S. Merkt , A. Erbe , P. Leiderer

Under quite generic assumptions the general expression is derived for the probability of circularly polarized photon emission from the longitudinally polarized electron and for the probability of pair creation of longitudinally polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Baier , V. M. Katkov

A system of N classical Coulomb charges trapped in a harmonic potential displays shell structure and orientational ordering. The local density profile is well understood from theory, simulation, and experiment. Here, pair correlations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jeffrey Wrighton , Hanno Kählert , Torben Ott , Patrick Ludwig , Hauke Thomsen , James Dufty , Michael Bonitz

In photonics, twisted bi-layer systems have demonstrated unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, primarily through the modulation of photonic band structures and the formation of Moir\'e patterns. Meanwhile, magnetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 You-Ming Liu , Shi-Kai Lin , Pei-Shi Li , Yi-Ran Hao , Biao Yang

Interface states in a 1-D photonic crystal heterostructure with multiple interfaces are examined. It is found that the behavior of the localized modes in the photonic band gaps is dependent on whether there is an even or odd number of…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-24 Nicholas J. Bianchi , Leonard M. Kahn