Motion of an optically torqued nanorod: the overdamped case

W. C. Kerr, H. Nasif, S. Raynor

A recent experiment [W. A. Shelton {\emph{et\ al.}}, Phys.\ Rev.\ E {\bf{71}}, 036204 (2005)] measured the response of a nanorod trapped in a viscous fluid to the torque produced b…