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  • Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
  • OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper FWY2
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2009.FWY2

Brownian Vortex Induced by Optical Tweezers

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Abstract

A particle diffusing around a point of stable mechanical equilibrium in a static but non-conservative force field enters into a steady state characterized by circulation in the probability flux. Circulation in such a Brownian vortex is not simply a deterministic response to the solenoidal component of the force, but rather reflects an interplay between force-driven probability currents and diffusion. As an example of this previously unrecognized class of stochastic heat engines, we consider a colloidal sphere stably trapped in a conventional optical tweezer. Rather than coming into thermodynamic equilibrium with the surrounding heat bath, the particle’s Brownian fluctuations are biased into a toroidal roll. We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that the circulation in this practical realization of the Brownian vortex can undergo flux reversal.

© 2009 Optical Society of America

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