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From Newtons third law, the principle of actio et reactio, we expect the forces between interacting particles to be equal and opposite. However, non-reciprocal forces can arise. Specifically, this has recently been shown theoretically in the interaction between dissimilar optically trapped particles mediated by an external field. As a result, despite the incident external field not having a transverse component of momentum, the particle pair experiences a force in a direction transverse to the light propagation direction. In this letter, we directly measure the net non-reciprocal force in electrodynamically interacting nanoparticle dimers illuminated by plane waves and confined to pseudo one-dimensional geometries. We show by electrodynamic theory and simulations that inter-particle interactions cause asymmetric scattering from heterodimers and therefore, the non-reciprocal forces are a consequence of momentum conservation. Finally, we demonstrate experimentally that non-reciprocal dynamics occur generally for illuminated asymmetric scatterers.

Reactive optical matter: light-induced motility in electrodynamically asymmetric nanoscale scatterers