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Theoretical Analysis of Motion of a Microparticle in an Optically Created Cubic Potential

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2016

Abstract

The noise-to-signal transitions are considered as interesting processes in physics as they might transform environmental noise to useful mechanical eects. Previously, we theoretically analyzed stochastic noise-to-signal transition, rst passage times, and other stochastic quantities of overdamped Brownian motion of a nanoparticle in the cubic potential.

Here we present a feasibility study showing that the cubic potential can be successfully obtained in a pair of overlapping optical tweezers even in the case of a dielectric microparticle having radius comparable to the trapping wavelength.