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A memristor, a two-terminal nanodevice, has garnered substantial attention in recent years due to its distinctive properties and versatile applications. These nanoscale components, characterized by their simplicity of manufacture,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Nikolaos Vasileiadis , Georgios Ch Sirakoulis , Panagiotis Dimitrakis

Mechanical metamaterials with bistable elements can store vast amounts of information, but writing these memories requires impractical local control or lengthy multi-cycle protocols. We overcome this limitation with a dynamic control…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-16 E. Gutierrez-Prieto , C. M. Meulblok , M. van Hecke , P. M. Reis

Memristive devices are commonly benchmarked by the multi-level programmability of their resistance states. Neural networks utilizing memristor crossbar arrays as synaptic layers largely rely on this feature. However, the dynamical…

We theoretically implement some hyperparallel optical elements, including quantum single photon transistor, router, and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The inevitable side leakage and the imperfect birefringence of the quantum dot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Ji-Zhen Liu , Ning-Yang Chen , Wen-Qiang Liu , Hai-Rui Wei , Ming Hua

Microwave storage and retrieval are essential capabilities for superconducting quantum circuits. Here, we demonstrate an on-chip multimode resonator in which strong parametric modulation induces a large and tunable normal-mode splitting…

Magneto-Electric FET (MEFET) is a recently developed post-CMOS FET, which offers intriguing characteristics for high speed and low-power design in both logic and memory applications. In this paper, for the first time, we propose a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Shaahin Angizi , Navid Khoshavi , Andrew Marshall , Peter Dowben , Deliang Fan

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an attractive candidate for main memory as it offers non-volatility and zero leakage power, while providing higher cell densities, longer data retention time, and higher capacity scaling compared to DRAM. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Aditya Narayan , Yvain Thonnart , Pascal Vivet , Ayse K. Coskun , Ajay Joshi

Nanoporosity in silicon results in an interface-dominated mechanics, fluidics and photonics that are often superior to the ones of the bulk material. However, their active control, e.g. as a response to electronic stimuli, is challenging…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-29 Manuel Brinker , Patrick Huber

We show the dielectrophoretic actuation of single-crystal diamond nanomechanical devices. Gradient radio-frequency electromagnetic forces are used to achieve actuation of both cantilever and doubly clamped beam structures, with operation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Young-Ik Sohn , Michael J. Burek , Vural Kara , Ryan Kearns , Marko Lončar

We study a string of neutral atoms with nearest neighbor interaction in a 1D beam splitter configuration, where the longitudinal motion is controlled by a moving optical lattice potential. The dynamics of the atoms crossing the beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Dorner , P. Fedichev , D. Jaksch , M. Lewenstein , P. Zoller

We propose a mechanical qubit based on buckling nanobars--a NEMS so small as to be quantum coherent.To establish buckling nanobars as legitimate candidates for qubits, we calculate the effective buckling potential that produces the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Savel'ev , Xuedong Hu , Franco Nori

Whether it is for transmitting information or for controlling intensity, light modulation is among the essential functions commonly used in complex optical systems. In integrated optics, modulation principles usually include the use of…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-01 Enrico Casamenti , Tao Yang , Pieter Vlugter , Yves Bellouard

A class of chalcogenide alloy materials that shows significant changes in optical properties upon an amorphous-to-crystalline phase transition has lead to development of large data capacities in modern optical data storage. Among…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-13 Kotaro Makino , Junji Tominaga , Muneaki Hase

We demonstrate the formation of confinement potentials in suspended nanostructures induced by the geometry of the devices. We then propose a setup for measuring the resulting geometric phase change of electronic wave functions in such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander V. Chaplik , Robert H. Blick

We suggest a realization of a bistable non-volatile memory capacitor (memcapacitor). Its design utilizes a strained elastic membrane as a plate of a parallel-plate capacitor. The applied stress generates low and high capacitance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 J. Martinez-Rincon , Y. V. Pershin

Microwave quantum memory promises advanced capabilities for noisy intermediate-scale superconducting quantum computers. Existing approaches to microwave quantum memory lack complete combination of high efficiency, long storage time,…

Exploiting spin degree of freedom of electron a new proposal is given to characterize spin-based logical operations using a quantum interferometer that can be utilized as a programmable spin logic device (PSLD). The ON and OFF states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

We propose and analyze a nanomechanical architecture where light is used to perform linear quantum operations on a set of many vibrational modes. Suitable amplitude modulation of a single laser beam is shown to generate squeezing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-17 Michael Schmidt , Max Ludwig , Florian Marquardt

Comprehensive understanding of the world's most energy efficient powerful computer, the human brain, is an elusive scientific issue. Still, already gained knowledge indicates memristors can be used as a building block to model the brain. At…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Mohamed T. Ghoneim , Muhammad M. Hussain

We design a technique to control the position of a localized matter wave. Our system is composed by a two counter-phased periodic potentials and a third optical lattice which can be chosen to be either periodic or disordered. The only…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-03 Jacopo Giacomelli
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