Observation of microwave shielding of ultracold molecules by Anderegg, Loïc, Burchesky, Sean, Bao, Yicheng, Yu, Scarlett S., Karman, Tijs, Chae, Eunmi, Ni, Kang-Kuen, Ketterle, Wolfgang, Doyle, John M.

“…Anderegg <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . used a microwave dressing field to tune the collisional properties of calcium monofluoride molecules trapped in optical tweezers. This approach allowed a sixfold suppression of inelastic trap-loss collisions. …”
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Survey on indirect optical manipulation of cells, nucleic acids, and motor proteins by Banerjee, Ashis, Chowdhury, Sagar, Losert, Wolfgang, Gupta, Satyandra K.

“…Optical tweezers have emerged as a promising technique for manipulating biological objects. …”
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Vision based optical manipulation of biological cell with unknown trapping stiffness by Li, Xiang, Cheah, Chien Chern, Kamal, Sayyed Omar

“…Current robotic manipulation techniques for optical tweezers assume that the trapping stiffness of optical trap is constant and exactly known. …”
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Coherent Surface Plasmon Hole Burning via Spontaneously Generated Coherence by Habibur Rahman, Hazrat Ali, Rafi Ud Din, Iftikhar Ahmad, Mahidur R. Sarker, Sawal Hamid Md Ali

“…The enhancement of plasmon hole burning under SGC will find significant applications in sensing technology, optical communication, optical tweezers and nano-photonics.…”
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Calculating the force-dependent unbinding rate of biological macromolecular bonds from force-ramp optical trapping assays by Apurba Paul, Joshua Alper

“…We also discuss the implications of our results on using optical tweezers to collect force-dependent dissociation data.…”
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Nucleic Acid Thermodynamics Derived from Mechanical Unzipping Experiments by Paolo Rissone, Felix Ritort

“…The application of piconewton forces with laser optical tweezers to single nucleic acids has permitted the characterization of molecular thermodynamics and kinetics with unprecedented accuracy. …”
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Viscoelastic properties of ring-linear DNA blends exhibit nonmonotonic dependence on blend composition by Karthik R. Peddireddy, Megan Lee, Charles M. Schroeder, Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

“…Here, we create blended solutions of entangled ring and linear DNA with varying mass fractions of linear DNA ϕ_{L}. We use optical tweezers microrheology to measure the linear and nonlinear viscoelastic response of these blends. …”
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Deciphering molecular mechanisms of phase separation in RNA biology by single-molecule biophysical technologies by Li Yuchen, Xu Mengmeng, Qi Zhi

“…To quantitively decipher the molecular mechanisms of RNP granules, researchers have turned to single-molecule biophysical techniques, such as single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET), in vivo single-molecule imaging technique with single particle tracking (SPT), DNA Curtains, optical tweezers, and atomic force microscopy (AFM). These methods are used to investigate the molecular biophysical properties within RNP granules, as well as the molecular interactions between RNA and RBPs and RBPs themselves, which are challenging to study using traditional experimental methods of the liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) field, such as fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP). …”
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Controlling Liquid Crystal Configuration and Phase Using Multiple Molecular Triggers by Linda M. Oster, Jake Shechter, Benjamin Strain, Manisha Shivrayan, Sankaran Thai Thayumanavan, Jennifer L. Ross

“…Using microscopy equipped with crossed polarizers and optical tweezers, we find that the monomeric amphiphile is able to trigger both a fast phase change and then a subsequent transition from nematic to isotropic. …”
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Multifrequency Bessel beams with adjustable group velocity and longitudinal acceleration in free space by P Hildén, E Ilina, M Kaivola, A Shevchenko

“…The results of these studies can be of interest to scientists working in the fields of optical beam engineering, light amplitude and intensity interferometry, ultrafast optics, and optical tweezers.…”
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Pressure Pulsatility Links Cardio-Respiratory and Brain Rhythmicity by Owen P. Hamill

“…Direct measurements in human patients indicate that heartbeat and breathing rhythms generate intracranial forces of tens of millinewtons, exceeding by orders of magnitude the localized forces shown by atomic force microscopy and optical tweezers to activate Piezo channels in isolated neocortical and hippocampal neurons. …”
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Versatile properties of dynein molecules underlying regulation in flagellar oscillation by Takashi Fujiwara, Chikako Shingyoji, Hideo Higuchi

“…Intact dynein molecules in the axoneme, doublet bundle and single doublet were used to measure the force with optical tweezers. The mean forces per dynein determined under three axonemal conditions were smaller than the previously reported stall forces of axonemal dynein; this phenomenon suggests that the duty ratio is lower than previously thought. …”
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A versatile geometric metasurface for generating both focused vortex and vector beams by Qiao Jiang, Xiangdong Guo, Hong Xiang, Dezhuan Han

“…The flexibility and versatility of the proposed approach may provide new opportunities to realize compact and multifunctional singular optical devices for applications including optical tweezers, light-matter interaction, optical communication, and other related fields.…”
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Review on fractional vortex beam by Zhang Hao, Zeng Jun, Lu Xingyuan, Wang Zhuoyi, Zhao Chengliang, Cai Yangjian

“…In recent years, we have noticed that the fractional vortex beam was widely used for complex micro-particle manipulation in optical tweezers, improving communication capacity, controllable edge enhancement of image and quantum entanglement. …”
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Characterization of G-Quadruplexes Folding/Unfolding Dynamics and Interactions with Proteins from Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy by Yuanlei Cheng, Yashuo Zhang, Huijuan You

“…Here, in this mini-review, we introduce the application of single-molecule force-spectroscopy methods, such as magnetic tweezers, optical tweezers, and atomic force microscopy, to characterize the polymorphism and folding/unfolding dynamics of G4s. …”
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Entropy-Based Strategies for Rapid Pre-Processing and Classification of Time Series Data from Single-Molecule Force Experiments by Denis Horvath, Gabriel Žoldák

“…In particular, large datasets of time series of single protein molecules have been obtained using laser optical tweezers. In this system, each molecular state has a separate time series with a relatively uneven composition from the point of view-point of local descriptive statistics. …”
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Reconfigurable optical assembly of nanostructures by Montelongo, Yunuen, Yetisen, Ali K., Butt, Haider, Yun, Seok Hyun (Andy)

“…We aim to expand the applications of optical forces, which have been mostly restricted to optical tweezers. Holographic assemblies of nanoparticles will allow a new generation of programmable composites for tunable metamaterials, data storage devices, sensors and displays.…”
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Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density by Anderegg, Loïc, Augenbraun, Benjamin L., Chae, Eunmi, Hemmerling, Boerge, Hutzler, Nicholas R., Ravi, Aakash, Collopy, Alejandra, Ye, Jun, Doyle, John M., Ketterle, Wolfgang

“…The achieved density enables future work to directly load optical tweezers and create optical arrays for quantum simulation.…”
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Probing topological spin liquids on a programmable quantum simulator by Semeghini, G, Levine, H, Keesling, A, Ebadi, S, Wang, TT, Bluvstein, D, Verresen, R, Pichler, H, Kalinowski, M, Samajdar, R, Omran, A, Sachdev, S, Vishwanath, A, Greiner, M, Vuletić, V, Lukin, MD

“…Semeghini <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . detected signatures of a toric code–type quantum spin liquid in a two-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers. —JS </jats:p>…”
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Atomic physics on a 50-nm scale: Realization of a bilayer system of dipolar atoms by Du, Li, Barral, Pierre, Cantara, Michael, de Hond, Julius, Lu, Yu-Kun, Ketterle, Wolfgang

“…For two atoms in optical tweezers, this should enable purely magnetic dipolar gates with kilohertz speed.…”
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