7 papers
Tunable Optical Torque by Asymmetry-Induced Spin-Hall Effect in Tightly Focused Spinless Gaussian Beams
Sauvik Roy, Ram Nandan Kumar, Biswajit Das +3
A linearly polarized Gaussian beam, carrying zero net spin angular momentum, is conventionally not expected to exert optical torque or induce rotational motion in birefringent micr…
Photophoretic Trapping: Fundamentals, Advances and Future Directions
Anita Pahi, Kirty Ranjan Sahoo, Souvik Sil +1
Photophoretic forces, several orders of magnitude stronger than radiation pressure, enable particle trapping at remarkably low optical intensities and have opened pathways to appli…
A stochastic heat engine driven using a nonlinear protocol
Amrutayani Panda, Biswajit Das, Shuvojit Paul +2
A colloidal particle confined in a time-dependent optical trap can function as a microscopic heat engine, with optimization strategies playing a crucial role in enhancing its perfo…
Unravelling the Flow of Information in a Nonequilibrium Process in the Presence of Hydrodynamic Interactions
Biswajit Das, Sreekanth K Manikandan, Ayan Banerjee
Identifying the origin of nonequilibrium characteristics in a generic interacting system having multiple degrees of freedom is a challenging task. In this context, information theo…
Decoding active force fluctuations from spatial trajectories of active systems
Anisha Majhi, Biswajit Das, Subhadeep Gupta +4
Mesoscopic active systems exhibit various unique behaviours - absent in passive systems - due to the forces generated by the corresponding constituents by converting their availabl…
Simultaneous active and diffusive behaviour of asymmetric microclusters in a photophoretic trap
Anita Pahi, Kirty Ranjan Sahoo, Biswajit Das +2
Active and diffusive motion in Brownian particles are regularly observed in fluidic environments, albeit at different time scales. Here, we experimentally study the dynamics of hig…