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Using light to measure an object's motion is central to operating mechanical sensors that probe forces and fields. Cavity optomechanical systems embed mechanical resonators inside optical resonators. This enhances the sensitivity of…
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Computing with coupled oscillators or oscillatory neural networks (ONNs) has recently attracted a lot of interest due to their potential for massive parallelism and energy-efficient computing. However, to date, ONNs have primarily been…
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