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Shrinking spintronic devices to the nanoscale ultimately requires localized control of individual atomic magnetic moments. At these length scales, the exchange interaction plays important roles, such as in the stabilization of…

Today's most sensitive experiments for detecting CP-violating permanent electric dipole moments (EDM) rely on molecular spectroscopy. The high sensitivity arises from large internal electric fields that interact with the constituents of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Fabian Wolf

We present an exact single-electron picture that describes the correlated electron dynamics in strong laser fields. Our approach is based on the factorization of the electronic wavefunction as a product of a marginal and a conditional…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Axel Schild , E. K. U. Gross

To unlock the potential for assembling complex colloidal "molecules", we investigate a minimal binary system of programmable colloidal atom-electron equivalents (PAE-EE), where electron equivalents (EEs) are multivalent linkers with two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-08 Xiuyang Xia , Yuhan Peng , Ka Ki Li , Ran Ni

It has been shown that the combining of the electrical effect on the exchange bias field with giant magneto-resistance effect of the graphene/ferromagnet hybrid structures reveals a new non-volatile magnetic random access memory device…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-01-09 Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , K. W. Kim

Coherent coupling between a large number of qubits is the goal for scalable approaches to solid state quantum information processing. Prototype systems can be characterized by spectroscopic techniques. Here, we use pulsed-continuous wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 M. Ziaur Rahman Khan , D. G. Hasko , M. S. M. Saifullah , M. E. Welland

Manipulating particles, such as cells and tissues, in a flowing liquid environment is crucial for life science research. Traditional contactless tweezers, although widely used for single-cell manipulation, face several challenges. These…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yuhong Zhou , Fubao Yang , Jinrong Liu , Gaole Dai , Zixin Li , Xuzhi Zhou , Peng Jin , Jiping Huang

Microscopically controlled neutral atoms in optical tweezers and lattices have led to exciting advances in the study of quantum information and quantum many-body systems. The light shifts of atomic levels from the trapping potential in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Nicholas R. Hutzler , Lee R. Liu , Yichao Yu , Kang-Kuen Ni

To date, individual addressing of ion qubits has relied primarily on local Rabi or transition frequency differences between ions created via electromagnetic field spatial gradients or via ion transport operations. Alternatively, it is…

Solution processed polymers are at the core of organic electronics. Polyradicals (polymers in which each repeating unit contains an unpaired spin) are unique alternatives to their p-conjugated, semiconducting counterparts. Unique of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Deepa Singh , Francois Magnan , Joe B. Gilroy , Giovanni Fanchini

The field of levitodynamics has made significant progress towards controlling and studying the motion of a levitated nanoparticle. Motional control relies on either autonomous feedback via a cavity or measurement-based feedback via external…

Polar molecules represent a promising platform for quantum simulation and computation protocols. Highly controllable arrays of optical tweezers are now accessible in experiments, allowing for unprecedented control of individual molecules.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Sakthikumaran Ravichandran , Piotr Kulik , Krzysztof Jachymski

Electromagnetic systems have been used extensively for the control magnetically actuated objects, such as in microrheology and microrobotics research. Therefore, optimizing the design of such systems is highly desired. Some of the features…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Max Sokolich , Max Sokolich , David Rivas , Markos Duey , Daniel Borsykowsky , Sambeeta Das

Electropermeabilization is a clinical technique in cancer treatment to locally stimulate the cell metabolism. It is based on electrical fields that change the properties of the cell membrane. With that, cancer treatment can reach the cell…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Habib Ammari , Thomas Widlak , Wenlong Zhang

We demonstrate the trapping and manipulation of single neutral atoms in reconfigurable arrays of optical tweezers. Our approach offers unparalleled speed by using a Texas Instruments Digital Micro-mirror Device (DMD) as a holographic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Dustin Stuart , Axel Kuhn

An innovative multi-functional static-passive electromagnetic skin (SP-EMS) solution is proposed to simultaneously support, in reflection, two independent wave-manipulation functionalities with a single meta-atoms arrangement on the EMS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Giacomo Oliveri , Francesco Zardi , Aaron Angel Salas Sanchez , Andrea Massa

Single-particle tracking (SPT) grants unprecedented insight into cellular function at the molecular scale [1]. Throughout the cell, the movement of single-molecules is generally heterogeneous and complex. Hence, there is an imperative to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-24 Mohamed El Beheiry , Maxime Dahan , Jean-Baptiste Masson

High-density microfluidics is becoming an important experimental platform for studying complex biological systems such as synthetic gene regulatory networks, molecular biocomputating of engineered cells, distributing rapid point-of-care…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Sankar Raju Narayanasamy , Ramakrishna Vasireddi , Hoi-Ying Holman

Optical tweezers have become a powerful tool for measuring parameters of microscale and nanoscale local environments. Motion of particles within optical tweezer traps established itself as a probe for local viscosity, temperature as well as…

Quadratic trapping potentials are widely used to experimentally probe biopolymers and molecular machines and drive transitions in steered molecular-dynamics simulations. Approximating energy landscapes as locally quadratic, we design…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-11 Steven Blaber , David A. Sivak