Excitable particles in an optical torque wrench

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-264

  Pedaci, Francesco ^a   Huang, Zhuangxiong ^a   Van Oene, Maarten ^a   Barland, Stephane ^b   Dekker, Nynke H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOOLS; TORQUE;

BIOLOGICAL MOLECULE; CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUES; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; INPUT PERTURBATION; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS; SPIN MOMENTUM TRANSFER; TORSIONAL PROPERTIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 79952451805     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1862     Document Type: Article

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