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Dynamic interactions between two oscillating micromechanical cantilevers are studied. In the experiment, the tip of a high-frequency cantilever is positioned near the surface of a second low-frequency cantilever. Due to the highly nonlinear…
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When the coupling rate between two quantum systems becomes as large as their characteristic frequencies, it induces dramatic effects on their dynamics and even on the nature of their ground state. The case of a qubit coupled to a harmonic…
Parametrically tuning the oscillation dynamics of coupled micro/nano-mechanical resonators through a mechanical pump scheme has recently attracted great attentions from fundamental physics to various applications. However, the special…
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Detection of the weakest forces in nature and the search for new physics are aided by increasingly sensitive measurements of the motion of mechanical oscillators. However, the attainable knowledge of an oscillator's motion is limited by…
We study the phenomenon of synchronization in pairs of doubly clamped, mechanically coupled silicon micro-oscillators. A continuous-wave laser beam is used to drive the micro-beams into limit cycle oscillations and to detect the…
A new type of quartz resonance device for measurements of oscillations of the contact potential difference induced by modulated light is described. Special attention is devoted to the compensation of the constructive capacitance of the…
We demonstrate the combination of scanning force microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy in a local probe microscope operating at very low temperature (60 mK). This local probe uses a quartz tuning fork ensuring high tunnel junction…
We investigate the possibility to monitor the dynamics of an open quantum system with the help of a small probe system, coupled via dephasing coupling to the open system of interest. As an example, we consider a dissipative harmonic…
Coupled, nonlinear oscillators are often studied in applied biology, physics, fluids, and many other disciplines. In this paper, we study a parametrically driven, coupled oscillator system where the individual oscillators are subjected to…
The operator fidelity is a measure of the information-theoretic distinguishability between perturbed and unperturbed evolutions. The response of this measure to the perturbation may be formulated in terms of the operator fidelity…
This article describes how a frequency modulation AFM using a hanging fiber force probe made from a quartz tuning fork provides local measurements on liquid-liquid interfaces. After detailing the manufacture and calibration of the force…
Many real-world systems are often regarded as weakly coupled limit-cycle oscillators, in which each oscillator corresponds to a dynamical system with many degrees of freedom that have collective oscillations. One of the most practical…
Elastic constants are central material properties, frequently reported in experimental and theoretical studies. While their computation is straightforward in the absence of thermal fluctuations, finite--temperature methods often suffer from…
In this article, the dynamics of an unbalanced two-ion crystal comprising the 'target' and the 'sensor' ions confined in a Penning trap has been studied. First, the low amplitude regime is addressed. In this regime, the overall potential…