BYU Graduate Student Siavash Mirzaei-Ghormish is being recognized for a recently published paper, "Nonlinear Optical Binding." The paper, which focuses on manipulating small particles using strong beams of light (optical binding), was published April 21st, 2025 as an editors suggestion article in APS Physical Review Applied. While a lot of previous work has been done in optical binding, Siavash's work focuses on the theory of non-linear interactions, and develops a framework for understanding how these effects change optical binding at the nanoscale.