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The shift in the backbone of the frequency--response curve and the `jump-down' observed at a critical frequency observed in nano-resonators are caused by their nonlinear mechanical response. The shift and jump-down point are therefore often…

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We present an efficient perturbative method to obtain both static and dynamic polarizabilities and hyperpolarizabilities of complex electronic systems. This approach is based on the solution of a frequency dependent Sternheimer equation,…

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We have managed to correlate the stability constants of complex formation, which can be registered in equilibrium state, to the dynamic characteristic of the complex lifetime. Thus, the principal concept of molecular biophysics regarding…

DNA-interacting proteins have roles multiple processes, many operating as molecular machines which undergo dynamic metastable transitions to bring about their biological function. To fully understand this molecular heterogeneity, DNA and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-15 Adam J. M. Wollman , Helen Miller , Zhaokun Zhou , Mark C. Leake

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a well known phenomenon in dynamical systems. It consists of the amplification and optimization of the response of a system assisted by stochastic noise. Here we carry out the first experimental study of SR in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 K. Hayashi , S. de Lorenzo , M. Manosas , J. M. Huguet , F. Ritort

Molecular biology explains function of molecules by their geometrical and electronical structures that are mainly determined by utilization of quantum effects in chemistry. However, further quantum effects are not thought to play any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Onur Pusuluk , Cemsinan Deliduman

We examine here the anomalous optical response of a nanosphere composed of two conjoined hemispheres of different materials, one of them being plasmonic. At the internal resonance, we show how the light interaction becomes dramatically…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-22 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

The influence of molecular vibrations on dissociative adsorption is studied by six-dimensional quantum dynamical calculations. For the system H_2 at Pd(100), which possesses non-activated pathways, it is shown that large vibrational effects…

mtrl-th · Physics 2009-10-30 Axel Gross , Matthias Scheffler

Mechanical resonators are widely used as inertial balances to detect small quantities of adsorbed mass through shifts in oscillation frequency[1]. Advances in lithography and materials synthesis have enabled the fabrication of nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Jensen , Kwanpyo Kim , A. Zettl

We introduce the `displacemon' electromechanical architecture that comprises a vibrating nanobeam, e.g. a carbon nanotube, flux coupled to a superconducting qubit. This platform can achieve strong and even ultrastrong coupling enabling a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Kiran E. Khosla , Michael R. Vanner , Natalia Ares , Edward A. Laird

Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to understand true atomic resolution, which has been observed on the Si(111)-7$\times$7 surface by dynamic force microscopy in ultra high vacuum(UHV). Stable atomic-scale contrast is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Abduxukur Abdurixit , Alexis Baratoff , Ernest Meyer

The optically induced oscillatory response of a spherical two-component, shell-core structured, nanoparticle by nodeless elastic vibrations of soft peripheral shell against hard and dynamically immobile inner core is considered. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. I. Bastrukov , P. -Y. Lai , I. V. Molodtsova , H. -K. Chang , D. V. Podgainy

Cells receive signaling molecules by receptors and relay information via sensory networks so that they can respond properly depending on the type of signal. Recent studies have shown that cells can extract multi-dimensional information from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Nanoscale resonators that oscillate at high frequencies are useful in many measurement applications. We studied a high-quality mechanical resonator made from a suspended carbon nanotube driven into motion by applying a periodic radio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-27 G. A. Steele , A. K. Huettel , B. Witkamp , M. Poot , H. B. Meerwaldt , L. P. Kouwenhoven , H. S. J. van der Zant

A hyperbolic metamaterial (HM) resonator is analyzed as a nano-antenna for enhancing the radiative emission of quantum emitters in its vicinity. It has been shown that the spontaneous emission rate by an emitter near a hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-03 Caner Guclu , Ting Shan Luk , George T. Wang , Filippo Capolino

We investigate initially the influence of thermomechanical and momentum exchange noise on the limit to mass sensitivity of nanoresonators with random rough surfaces, which are characterized by the roughness amplitude, the correlation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 George Palasantzas

We describe a general theory for surface-catalyzed bimolecular reactions in responsive nanoreactors, catalytically active nanoparticles coated by a stimuli-responsive 'gating' shell, whose permeability controls the activity of the process.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Rafael Roa , Won Kyu Kim , Matej Kanduc , Joachim Dzubiella , Stefano Angioletti-Uberti

We probe electro-mechanical properties of InAs nanowire (diameter ~ 100 nm) resonators where the suspended nanowire (NW) is also the active channel of a field effect transistor (FET). We observe and explain the non-monotonic dispersion of…

The dynamics following the photoexcitation of Na and Li atoms located on the surface of helium nanodroplets has been investigated in a joint experimental and theoretical study. Photoelectron spectroscopy has revealed that excitation of the…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2017-08-23 Alberto Hernando , Manuel Barranco , Martí Pi , Evgeniy Loginov , Marina Langlet , Marcel Drabbels

We considered the set of the ordered split-ring silver resonators in the form of nanosize horseshoes arranged in a layer at the surface of the active dielectric medium. The size of the horseshoe resonator is much less than the wavelength of…

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