The present paper may be viewed as built from comments concerning a recently published
paper in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and actually …

Among the many works of Arthur Ashkin, many have been devoted to optical tweezers,
optical levitation and optical manipulation of macroscopic particles (“macroscopic” being …

Self-assembly of nanoparticles by means of interparticle optical forces provides a
compelling approach toward contact-free organization and manipulation of nanoscale …

Optically levitated nano-objects in vacuum are among the highest quality mechanical
oscillators, and thus of great interest for force sensing, cavity quantum optomechanics, and …

Magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles offer a promising path to quantum
experiments with picogram to microgram objects. In this work, we levitate a 700 ng∼ 10 17 …

Silicon nanowires are held and manipulated in controlled optical traps based on counter-
propagating beams focused by low numerical aperture lenses. The double-beam …

We study the interaction of dielectric rods and disks with the laser field of a high-finesse
cavity. The quantum master equation for the coupled particle-cavity dynamics, including …

T-matrix methods for electromagnetic structured beams mainly encompass Generalized
Lorenz-Mie Theories (GLMTs) which form a set of analytical approaches dealing with the …

Motivated by trapping and cooling experiments with nonspherical nanoparticles, we discuss
how their combined rotational and translational quantum state is affected by the interaction …

Birefringent microspheres, trapped in vacuum and set into rotation by circularly polarised
light, demonstrate remarkably stable translational motion. This is in marked contrast to …