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We demonstrate that a cycle of three holographic optical trapping patterns can implement a thermal ratchet for diffusing colloidal spheres, and that the ratchet-driven transport displays flux reversal as a function of the cycle frequency…

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We demonstrate an Al superconducting quantum interference device in which the Josephson junctions are implemented through gate-controlled proximitized Cu mesoscopic weak-links. The latter behave analogously to genuine superconducting metals…

We report experiments on micron-scale normal metal loop connected by superconducting wires, where the sample geometry enables full modulation of the thermal activation barrier with applied magnetic flux, resembling a symmetric quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-09-10 Jian Wei , P. Cadden-Zimansky , P. Virtanen , V. Chandrasekhar

Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) forms the basis of the new-generation portable analytical systems. LOC allows the manipulation of ultralow flows of liquid reagents and multistep reactions on a microfluidic chip, which requires a robust and precise…

We construct a model of non-uniform condensate having a spatially modulated complex order parameter that makes it kinematically an x-ray solid, i.e., a real mass density wave, but one admitting an associated superfluid flow. Intrinsic to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kumar

Closed-loop control of an amplifier flow is experimentally investigated. A feed-forward algorithm is implemented to control the flow downstream a backward-facing step. Upstream and downstream data are extracted from real-time velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-25 Nicolas Gautier , Jean-Luc Aider

A recently proposed device, dubbed half-Josephson laser, provides a phase-lock between the optical phase and the superconducting phase difference between the leads of the device. In this paper we propose to utilize this phase-lock for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 F. Godschalk , Yu. V. Nazarov

The emerging field of phase-coherent caloritronics (from the Latin word "calor", i.e., heat) is based on the possibility to control heat currents using the phase difference of the superconducting order parameter. The goal is to design and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Antonio Fornieri , Francesco Giazotto

We demonstrate the efficient modulation of flux-tunable superconducting resonators (FTRs) using flip-chip or on-chip-based input coils. The FTRs we use are aluminum-based quarter-wave coplanar waveguide resonators terminated with 100um or…

We have investigated the flux transfer characteristics of a switchable flux transformer comprising a superconducting loop and a DC superconducting quantum interference device (DC-SQUID). This system can be used to couple multiple flux…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Shimazu , T. Niizeki

We consider a design for a cyclic microrefrigerator using a superconducting flux qubit. Adiabatic modulation of the flux combined with thermalization can be used to transfer energy from a lower temperature normal metal thin film resistor to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. O. Niskanen , Y. Nakamura , J. P. Pekola

Environmental noise coupling to mechanical experiments often introduces low-frequency fluctuations to the resonators, adding noise to measurements and reducing signal to noise. To counter these fluctuations, we demonstrate a dynamic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-07-13 J. P. van Soest , C. A. Potts , S. Peiter , A. Sanz Mora , G. A. Steele

Direct laser slab face-cooling by a fluid crossing the main and pump laser beams is an important method to reach high average laser powers. However, the flow regime is usually maintained at low Reynolds numbers, to prevent the onset of…

Scalar transport (e.g. heat or chemical species) in laminar flows is key to many industrial activities and fluid stirring by flow reorientation is a common way to enhance this process. However, "How best to stir?" remains a major challenge.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-23 R. Lensvelt , M. F. M Speetjens , H. Nijmeijer

In this paper, we demonstrate sub-harmonic injection locking (SHIL) in mechanical metronomes. To do so, we first formulate metronome's physical compact model, focusing on its nonlinear terms for friction and the escapement mechanism. Then…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-13 Tianshi Wang

We experimentally demonstrate thermo-optic locking of a semiconductor laser to an integrated toroidal optical microresonator. The lock is maintained for time periods exceeding twelve hours, without requiring any electronic control systems.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. G. McRae , K. H. Lee , M. McGovern , D. Gwyther , W. P. Bowen

We examine spin dependent transport in a quantum interferometer composed of magnetic atomic sites based on transfer matrix formalism. The interferometer, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is symmetrically attached to two semi-infinite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-24 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We perform a numeric study of the flux transitions in a superconducting ring at fixed temperature, while the applied field is swept at an ideally slow rate. The current around the ring and its free energy are evaluated. We partially explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Jorge Berger

We propose a simple experiment to investigate the intercommutation of flux tubes in type II superconductors. Using this method the intercommutation of strings can be observed directly and the dependence of intercommutation on the angle of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ajit M. Srivastava

We report the experimental investigation and theoretical modeling of a rotating polariton superfluid relying on an innovative method for the injection of angular momentum. This novel, multi-pump injection method uses four coherent lasers…