Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Transverse spin forces and non-equilibrium particle dynamics in a circularly polarized vacuum optical trap

  • V. Svak,
  • O. Brzobohatý,
  • M. Šiler,
  • P. Jákl,
  • J. Kaňka,
  • P. Zemánek,
  • S. H. Simpson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07866-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Here, the authors provide a vivid demonstration of the dynamic effect of transverse spin momentum in an optical beam in free space revealed by placing a dielectric bead in a counter-propagating optical beam trap in vacuum.