eprintid: 1507864 rev_number: 28 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/50/78/64 datestamp: 2016-08-26 11:27:53 lastmod: 2021-09-19 23:48:24 status_changed: 2016-08-26 11:27:53 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Irrera, A creators_name: Magazzù, A creators_name: Artoni, P creators_name: Simpson, SH creators_name: Hanna, S creators_name: Jones, PH creators_name: Priolo, F creators_name: Gucciardi, PG creators_name: Maragò, OM title: Photonic Torque Microscopy of the Nonconservative Force Field for Optically Trapped Silicon Nanowires ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F60 keywords: Brownian motion, Optical tweezers, nonequilibrium dynamics, silicon nanowires note: Copyright © 2016 American Chemical Society. This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01059 abstract: We measure, by photonic torque microscopy, the nonconservative rotational motion arising from the transverse components of the radiation pressure on optically trapped, ultrathin silicon nanowires. Unlike spherical particles, we find that nonconservative effects have a significant influence on the nanowire dynamics in the trap. We show that the extreme shape of the trapped nanowires yields a transverse component of the radiation pressure that results in an orbital rotation of the nanowire about the trap axis. We study the resulting motion as a function of optical power and nanowire length, discussing its size-scaling behavior. These shape-dependent nonconservative effects have implications for optical force calibration and optomechanics with levitated nonspherical particles. date: 2016-07-13 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01059 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1135992 doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01059 lyricists_name: Jones, Philip lyricists_id: PHJON02 actors_name: Jones, Philip actors_id: PHJON02 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Nano Letters volume: 16 number: 7 pagerange: 4181-4188 event_location: United States issn: 1530-6992 citation: Irrera, A; Magazzù, A; Artoni, P; Simpson, SH; Hanna, S; Jones, PH; Priolo, F; ... Maragò, OM; + view all <#> Irrera, A; Magazzù, A; Artoni, P; Simpson, SH; Hanna, S; Jones, PH; Priolo, F; Gucciardi, PG; Maragò, OM; - view fewer <#> (2016) Photonic Torque Microscopy of the Nonconservative Force Field for Optically Trapped Silicon Nanowires. Nano Letters , 16 (7) pp. 4181-4188. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01059 <https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01059>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1507864/1/Irrera%20et%20al%202016%20Photonic%20Torque%20Microscopy%20of%20the%20Nonconservative%20Force%20Field%20for%20Optically%20Trapped%20Silicon%20Nanowires.pdf