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Accurate modeling of ultrasound wave propagation is essential for high-fidelity simulation and imaging in ultrasonic testing. A primary challenge lies in characterizing the excitation source, particularly for transducers with large…

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The imbalance of normal stress around a particle induces its transverse migration in pressure-driven viscoelastic flow, offering possibilities for particle manipulation in microfluidic devices. Theoretical predictions align with…

Levitated optomechanics, a rapidly expanding field that employs light to monitor and manipulate the mechanical motion of levitated objects, is increasingly relevant across physics, engineering, and other fields. This technique, which…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-18 Yuanbin Jin , Kunhong Shen , Peng Ju , Tongcang Li

The field of levitodynamics has made substantial advancements in manipulating the translational and rotational degrees of freedom of levitated nanoparticles. Notably, rotational degrees of freedom can now be cooled to millikelvin…

This paper presents a microfluidic device that implements standing surface acoustic waves in order to handle single cells, droplets, and generally particles. The particles are moved in a very controlled manner by the two-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-11-14 S. B. Q. Tran , Philippe Marmottant , Pierre Thibault

It is reported that when a light beam travels through a slab of left-handed medium in the air, the lateral shift of the transmitted beam can be negative as well as positive. The necessary condition for the lateral shift to be positive is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xi Chen , Chun-Fang Li

Simulation involves predicting responses of a physical system. In this article, we simulate opto-acoustic signals generated in a three-dimensional volume due to absorption of an optical pulse. A separable computational model is developed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Jason Zalev , Michael C. Kolios

We report on the electrically driven rotation of $2.4~\mu$m-radius, optically levitated dielectric microspheres. Electric fields are used to apply torques to a microsphere's permanent electric dipole moment, while angular displacement is…

Classical descriptions of flapping propulsion near a free surface emphasize the energetic penalties of wave generation, treating the interface primarily as an energy sink. Here, we show that the same deformable boundary can also act as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-16 Qimin Feng , Tianjun Han , Qiang Zhong

We demonstrate the stable trapping of a levitated nanoparticle on top of an inverted potential using a combination of optical readout and electrostatic control. The feedback levitation on an inverted potential (FLIP) method stabilizes the…

In this work, we investigate the large-scale transport properties of a passive scalar advected by a turbulent fluid, modelled as a superposition of divergence-free vector fields, each weighted by an independent symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Paolo Cifani , Franco Flandoli , Lorenzo Marino

We present a novel semiclassical phase-space surface hopping approach that goes beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and all existing surface hopping formalisms. We demonstrate that working with a correct phase-space electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Xuezhi Bian , Yanze Wu , Tian Qiu , Tao Zhen , Joseph E. Subotnik

We demonstrate and characterize the transfer of a levitating silica nanosphere between two optical tweezers, at low pressure. Both optical traps are mounted on the heads of optical fibers and placed on translation stages in vacuum chambers.…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-25 Massimo Calamai , Andrea Ranfagni , Francesco Marin

We report on an investigation of the vertical transport of tracer particles released within a shallow, continuously-forced flow by means of numerical simulations. The investigation is motivated by the shallow flows encountered in many…

The intrinsic limitation of the material nonlinearity inevitably results in the poor mode purity, conversion efficiency and real-time reconfigurability of the generated harmonic waves, both in optics and acoustics. Rotational Doppler effect…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Chengbo Hu , Wei Wang , Jincheng Ni , Yujiang Ding , Jingkai Weng , Bin Liang , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Jianchun Cheng

Based on the background of the 2021 Higher Education Club Cup National College Students Mathematical Contest in Modeling A, according to the relevant data of the China Sky Eye (FAST) radio telescope, the main cable nodes and actuators are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Tongyue Shi , Siyu Tao , Haining Wang

Nonlinear optical features of a plane structure consisted of silicon disks placed periodically on a silver substrate have been studied in the Littrow reflection scenario. The structure manifests a bistable resonant reflective ability.…

In this article, we study the optical response of a duplicated two-level atomic medium subjected to a stationary control field and a weak co-propagating probe field, orthogonally polarized to each other. We show that both the reflected and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 F. A. Hashmi , E. Brion , M. A. Bouchene

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced high-dimensional data generation across various domains, by learning a denoising oracle (or score) from datasets. From a Bayesian perspective, they offer a realistic modeling of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Joan Bruna , Jiequn Han

The optically levitated particles have been driven to rotate at an ultra-high speed of GHz, and the gyroscopic application of these levitated particles to measure angular motion have long been explored. However, this gyroscope has not been…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-19 Kai Zeng , Xiangming Xu , Yulie Wu , Xuezhong Wu , Dingbang Xiao