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In this letter, we show that pore-scale diffusiophoresis of colloidal particles along local salt gradients manifests in the macroscopic dispersion of particles in a porous medium. Despite is transient character, this microscopic phenomenon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-16 Mamta Jotkar , Pietro de Anna , Marco Dentz , Luis Cueto-Felgueroso

This preliminary study presents a simple modulation scheme to dynamically create time-averaged optical potentials to trap colloidal particles using acousto-optical modulation. The method provides access to control experimentally relevant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-21 Thalyta Tavares Martins , Sérgio Ricardo Muniz

Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bo Xing , Jesús G. Parejo , Sofía Martínez-Garaot , Paola Cappellaro , Mikel Palmero

For conventional ion traps, the trapping potential is close to independent of the electronic state, providing confinement for ions dependent primarily on their charge-to-mass ratio $Q/m$. In contrast, storing ions within an optical dipole…

A colloidal particle placed in an inhomogeneous solution of smaller non-adsorbing polymers will move towards regions of lower polymer concentration, in order to reduce the free energy of the interface between the surface of the particle and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-13 Richard P. Sear , Patrick B. Warren

The high fidelity generation of strongly entangled states of many particles, such as cat states, is a particularly demanding challenge. One approach is to drive the system, within a certain final time, as adiabatically as possible, in order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Mikel Palmero , Miguel Ángel Simón , Dario Poletti

We demonstrate the realization of (laterally) optically bounded colloidal structures on a liquid-liquid interface of an emulsion droplet. We use DNA tethers to graft the particles to the droplet surface, effectively confining them to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-27 Alessio Caciagli , Darshana Joshi , Jurij Kotar , Erika Eiser

We report a study of reversible adsorption of DNA-coated colloids on complementary functionalized oil droplets. We show that it is possible to control the surface coverage of oil droplets by colloidal particles, by exploiting the fact that…

By performing a slow adiabatic change between two traps of a quantum particle, it is possible to transform an eigenstate of the original trap into the corresponding eigenstate of the final trap. If no level crossings are involved, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 S. Martínez-Garaot , M. Palmero , J. G. Muga , D. Guéry-Odelin

We consider a time dependent trap externally manipulated in such a way that one of its bound states is brought into an instant contact with the continuum threshold, and then down again. It is shown that, in the limit of slow evolution, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 D. Sokolovski , M. Pons

Forced evaporative cooling in a far-off-resonance optical dipole trap is proved to be an efficient method to produce fermionic- or bosonic-degenerated gases. However in most of the experiences, the reduction of the potential height occurs…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-11-24 David Wilkowski

We measure interaction forces between pairs of charged PMMA colloidal particles suspended in a relatively low-polar medium (5 $\lesssim \epsilon \lesssim$ 8) directly from the deviations of particle positions inside two time-shared optical…

We study numerically the hydrodynamics of dip coating from a suspension and report a mechanism for colloidal assembly and pattern formation on smooth and uniform substrates. Below a critical withdrawal speed of the substrate, capillary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Carlos E. Colosqui , Jeffrey F. Morris , Howard A. Stone

A colloidal particle driven by externally actuated rotation can self-propel parallel to a rigid boundary by exploiting the hydrodynamic coupling that surfaces induce between translation and rotation. As such a roller moves along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-20 Alexander Chamolly , Eric Lauga , Soichiro Tottori

Only very recently, rescaling time has been recognized as a way to achieve adiabatic dynamics in fast processes. The advantage of time-rescaling over other shortcuts to adiabaticity is that it does not depend on the eigenspectrum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Agniva Roychowdhury , Sebastian Deffner

We study analytically the joint dispersion of Gaussian patches of salt and colloids in linear flows, and how salt gradients accelerate or delay colloid spreading by diffusiophoretic effects. Because these flows have constant gradients in…

Understanding how colloids move in crowded environments is key for gaining control over their transport in applications such as drug delivery, filtration, contaminant/microplastic remediation and agriculture. The classical models of colloid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-15 Mobin Alipour , Yiran Li , Haoyu Liu , Amir A. Pahlavan

We show how the dynamics of a specific subset of states can be separated from the dynamic of the total quantum state via a time-dependent projector-based formalism of adiabatic elimination. Within our formalism, we assume explicit time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Samuel Böhringer , Alexander Bott , Eric P. Glasbrenner

Diffusiophoresis (DP) refers to the migration of particles driven by a solute concentration gradient in a liquid. Observations in the case of molecular neutral solutes are rather scarce, due to the low drift velocities in dilute solutions,…

We propose a new scheme for supplying voltages to the electrodes of microfabricated ion traps, enabling access to a regime in which changes to the trapping potential are made on timescales much shorter than the period of the secular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 J. Alonso , F. M. Leupold , B. C. Keitch , J. P. Home