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We investigate a scheme that makes a quantum non-demolition measurement of the excitation level of a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator by utilizing the anharmonic coupling between two elastic beam bending modes. The non-linear coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. H. Santamore , A. C. Doherty , M. C. Cross

We present a novel method for active continuous-tuning of a band gap which has a great potential to revolutionize current photonic technologies. We study a periodic structure of x and y-aligned nanorod dimers. Refractive index of a…

Coupled mechanical oscillations were first observed in paired pendulum clocks in the mid-seventeenth century and were extensively studied for their novel sympathetic oscillation dynamics. In this era of nanotechnologies, coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hajime Okamoto , Adrien Gourgout , Chia-Yuan Chang , Koji Onomitsu , Imran Mahboob , Edward Yi Chang , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We present a single-quadrature feedback scheme able to overcome the conventional 3 dB limit on parametric squeezing. The method is experimentally demonstrated in a micromechanical system based on a cantilever with a magnetic tip. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Andrea Vinante , Paolo Falferi

We propose two schemes to generate entanglement between a pair of mechanical oscillators using parametric amplification. In contrast to existing parametric drive-based protocols, both schemes operate in the steady-state. Using a detuned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alex Szorkovszky , Aashish A. Clerk , Andrew C. Doherty , Warwick P. Bowen

Cavity magnomechanics has opened a new frontier in quantum electrodynamics, yielding several significant theoretical and experimental results. In this paper, we propose a different theoretical mechanism to achieve nonreciprocal macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Ziyad Imara , Khadija El Anouz , Ilkay Demir , Abderrahim El Allati

Dynamics of icrocantilevers are of important interest in micro-mechanical systems for enhancing the functionality and applicable range of the cantilevers in vibration transducing and highly sensitive measurement. In this study, using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Le Tri Dat , Vinh N. T. Pham , Le Van Tan , Nguyen Duy Vy

The advancement of quantum photonic technologies relies on the ability to precisely control the degrees of freedom of optically active states. Here, we realize real-time, room-temperature tunable strong plasmon-exciton coupling in 2D…

We investigate the lateral displacements for ballistic electron beams in a two-dimensional electron gas modulated by metallic ferromagnetic (FM) stripes with parallel and antiparallel (AP) magnetization configurations. It is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Xi Chen , Chun-Fang Li , Yue Ban

A contactless control of mean values and fluctuations of position and velocity of a nanoobject belongs among the key methods needed for ultra-precise nanotechnology and the upcoming quantum technology of macroscopic systems. An analysis of…

One-dimensional nonlinear phononic crystals have been assembled from periodic diatomic chains of stainless steel cylinders alternated with Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) spheres. We report the presence of acoustic band gaps in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-27 E. B. Herbold , J. Kim , V. F. Nesterenko , S. Wang , C. Daraio

We present a tunable phononic crystal which undergoes a phase transition from mechanically insulating to mechanically transmissive (metallic). Specifically, in our simulations for a phononic lattice under biaxial tension ($\sigma_{xx}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Jan N. Kirchhof , Kirill I. Bolotin

Coupling mechanical degrees of freedom with plasmonic resonances has potential applications in optomechanics, sensing, and active plasmonics. Here we demonstrate a suspended two-wire plasmonic nano-antenna acting like a nano-electrometer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Kai Chen , Gary Razinskas , Thorsten Feichtner , Swen Grossmann , Silke Christiansen , Bert Hecht

We present a hybrid optomechanical scheme to achieve dynamical squeezing of position quadrature of a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator, that can be externally controlled by classical fields. A membrane-in-the-middle set up is employed, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Anil Kumar Chauhan , Asoka Biswas

We report the confinement of an optomechanical micro-oscillator in a squeezed thermal state, obtained by parametric modulation of the optical spring. We propose and implement an experimental scheme based on parametric feedback control of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Pontin , M. Bonaldi , A. Borrielli , F. S. Cataliotti , F. Marino , G. A. Prodi , E. Serra , F. Marin

We present an electrically driven plasmonic device consisting of a gold nanoparticle trapped in a gap between two electrodes. The tunneling current in the device generates plasmons, which decay radiatively. The emitted spectrum extends up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Yuval Vardi , Eyal Cohen-Hoshen , Guy Shalem , Israel Bar-Joseph

Based on the Lorenz-Mie theory, we derive analytical expressions of radiative and nonradiative transition rates for different orientations of a point dipole emitter in the vicinity of an infinitely long circular cylinder of arbitrary…

We report a new spin manipulation protocol for periodically reversing the sample magnetization for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy. The protocol modulates the microwave excitation frequency synchronously with the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 K. C. Fong , P. Banerjee , Yu. Obukhov , D. V. Pelekhov , P. C. Hammel

We consider electron transport in a quantum wire with a side-coupled quantum ring in a two-dimensional model that accounts for a finite width of the channels. We use the finite difference technique to solve the scattering problem as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 B. Szafran , M. R. Poniedziałek

We have performed an experimental characterization of the dynamics of oscillating quartz tuning forks which are being increasingly used in scanning probe microscopy as force sensors. We show that tuning forks can be described as a system of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Nicolas Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger