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The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and inspired researchers to venture to new grounds. Scientific feats…

Most mechanical resonators are treated as simple linear oscillators. Nonlinearity in the resonance behavior of nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) has only lately attracted significant interest. Most recently, cubic-order nonlinearity has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Madhav Kumar , Bhaskar Choubey , Harish Bhaskaran

Mechanical sources of nonlinear damping play a central role in modern physics, from solid-state physics to thermodynamics. The microscopic theory of mechanical dissipation [M. I . Dykman, M. A. Krivoglaz, Physica Status Solidi (b) 68, 111…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 Ata Keşkekler , Oriel Shoshani , Martin Lee , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Peter G. Steeneken , Farbod Alijani

We investigate nonlinear dispersive mode coupling between the flexural in- and out-of-plane modes of two doubly clamped, nanomechanical silicon nitride string resonators. As the amplitude of one mode transitions from the linear response…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 K. Gajo , G. Rastelli , E. M. Weig

We study nonlinear resonance of coupled modes in nano-mechanical systems. To reveal the qualitative features of the dynamics, we consider the limiting cases, where the results can be obtained analytically. For 1:3 resonance, we find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 O. Shoshani , S. W. Shaw , M. I. Dykman

The small mass and high coherence of nanomechanical resonators render them the ultimate force probe, with applications ranging from biosensing and magnetic resonance force microscopy, to quantum optomechanics. A notorious challenge in these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Yeghishe Tsaturyan , Andreas Barg , Eugene S. Polzik , Albert Schliesser

The applications of nanomechanical resonators range from biomolecule mass sensing to hybrid quantum interfaces. Their performance is often limited by internal material damping, which can be greatly reduced by using crystalline materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Leo Sementilli , Daniil M. Lukin , Hope Lee , Joshua Yang , Erick Romero , Jelena Vučković , Warwick P. Bowen

The response of a coupled array of nonlinear oscillators to parametric excitation is calculated in the weak nonlinear limit using secular perturbation theory. Exact results for small arrays of oscillators are used to guide the analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ron Lifshitz , M. C. Cross

Being motivated by the recent prediction of high-$Q$ supercavity modes in subwavelength dielectric resonators, we study the second-harmonic generation from isolated subwavelength AlGaAs nanoantennas pumped by a structured light. We reveal…

We study locking phenomena of two strongly coupled, high-quality factor nanomechanical resonator modes subject to a common parametric drive at a single drive frequency. By controlled dielectric gradient forces we tune the resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 Maximilian J. Seitner , Mehdi Abdi , Alessandro Ridolfo , Michael J. Hartmann , Eva M. Weig

We consider a theoretical model for a nonlinear nanomechanical resonator coupled to a superconducting microwave resonator. The nanomechanical resonator is driven parametrically at twice its resonance frequency, while the superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Charles P. Meaney , Ross H. McKenzie , G. J. Milburn

Networks of nonlinear resonators offer a promising platform for analog computing and the emulation of complex systems. However, realizing such networks remains challenging, as it requires resonators with high quality factors, individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Luis Mestre , Suyash Singh , Gabriel Margiani , Letizia Catalini , Alexander Eichler , Vincent Dumont

Controlling nonlinear effects in micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems is essential for unlocking their full potential in sensing, signal processing, and frequency control. In this study, we develop a voltage-dependent Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Narges Tarakameh Samani , Farhad Shahbazi , Mehdi Abdi

Dynamic stabilization by simultaneous primary and superharmonic resonances for high order nonlinearity cancellation is demonstrated with an electrostatically-actuated, piezoresistively-transduced nanomechanical resonator. We prove…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Najib Kacem , Sébastien Baguet , Laurent Duraffourg , Guillaume Jourdan , Régis Dufour , Sébastien Hentz

Spin-mechanics studies interactions between spin systems and mechanical vibrations in a nanomechanical resonator and explores their potential applications in quantum information processing. In this tutorial, we summarize various types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hailin Wang , Ignas Lekavicius

The motion of micro- and nanomechanical resonators can be coupled to electromagnetic fields. This allows to explore the mutual interaction and introduces new means to manipulate and control both light and mechanical motion. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Georg Heinrich , Florian Marquardt

In this paper, we report on the observation of nonlinear effects in a nanostrip phononic metasurface (NPM) that enable the tuning of resonance frequencies at 1.42 GHz. The NPM resonator made of periodic nanostrip array is fabricated on a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Feng Gao , Amine Bermak , Sarah Benchabane , Marina Raschetti , Abdelkrim Khelif

A deterministic scheme for generating a macroscopic superposition state of a nanomechanical resonator is proposed. The nonclassical state is generated through a suitably engineered dissipative dynamics exploiting the optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-31 Muhammad Asjad , David Vitali

The very significant growth of the wireless communication industry has spawned tremendous interest in the development of high performances radio frequencies (RF) components. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) are good candidates to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-22 C. Durand , F. Casset , P. Ancey , F. Judong , A. Talbot , R. Quenouillere , D. Renaud , S. Borel , B. Florin , L. Buchaillot

We present a high-sensitivity measurement technique for mechanical nanoresonators. Due to intrinsic nonlinear effects, different flexural modes of a nanobeam can be coupled while driving each of them on resonance. This mode-coupling scheme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 M. Defoort , K. J. Lulla , C. Blanc , O. Bourgeois , A. D. Armour , E. Collin