The field of optical tweezers and manipulation techniques has witnessed remarkable advancements, transcending its early applications in trapping micrometre‐sized objects to now encompass precise ...

The team trap molecules in a vacuum chamber (left) using magic-wavelength tweezers and other laser beams (right). Credit: Durham University By using specially tuned laser light in the optical tweezers ...

"We are laying critical groundwork to enable quantum computers with more than 100,000 qubits," Will said. In a paper published in Nature, Will, Yu, and their colleagues combine two powerful ...

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical tweezers. He and his colleagues use the tweezers, made of laser light, to ...

Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential ...

Using a novel non-contact approach, a research team has successfully controlled the speed and efficiency of Forster resonance energy transfer between fluorescent molecules by varying the intensity of ...