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Asymmetric longitudinal optical binding force between two identical dielectric particles with electric and magnetic dipolar responses

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Date
07/2022
Author
Duan, Xiao-Yong
Bruce, Graham D.
Li, Feng
Dholakia, Kishan
Funder
EPSRC
Grant ID
EP/P030017/1
Keywords
QC Physics
TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
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Abstract
In general, the optical binding force between identical particles is thought to be symmetric. However, we demonstrate analytically a counterintuitively asymmetric longitudinal optical binding force between two identical electric and magnetic dipolar dielectric particles. This homodimer is confined in two counterpropagating incoherent plane waves along the dimer's axis. The force consists of the electric dipolar, magnetic dipolar, and electric-magnetic dipolar coupling interactions. The combined effect of these interactions is markedly different than the expected behavior in the Rayleigh approximation. The asymmetric force is a result of the asymmetric forward and backward scattering of the particles due to the dipolar hybridization and coupling interactions. Consequently, it leads to a harmonic driving force on the pair, which decays with the interparticle distance to the first power. We show the rich nonequilibrium dynamics of the dimer and of the two particles impelled by the driving and binding forces and discuss the ranges of particle refractive index and size in which the asymmetric binding force arises. Our results open perspectives for nonequilibrium light-driven multiparticle transport and self-assembly.
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Duan , X-Y , Bruce , G D , Li , F & Dholakia , K 2022 , ' Asymmetric longitudinal optical binding force between two identical dielectric particles with electric and magnetic dipolar responses ' , Physical Review A , vol. 106 , no. 1 , 013108 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.013108
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Physical Review A
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.013108
ISSN
2469-9934
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 American Physical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.0131085.
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Funding: This work was supported by Jiaxing Science and Technology Project Grants (No.2021AY10057), KD acknowledges support of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant EP/P030017/1).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25499

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