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Since their discovery, graphene-based systems represent an exceptional playground to explore the emergence of peculiar quantum effects. The present paper focuses on the anomalous appearence of strong infrared phonon resonances in the…

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The Phononic Casimir effect between planar objects is investigated by deriving a formalism from the quantum partition function of the system following multiscattering approach. This fluctuation-induced coupling is mediated by phonons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Dai-Nam Le , Lilia M. Woods

This letter introduces ab initio study of the full activation-volume tensor of crystalline defects as a means to make contact with mechanical response experiments. We present a theoretical framework for prediction of the internal friction…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 H. Ustunel , D. Roundy , T. A. Arias

Any gravitating mass traversing a relatively sparse gas experiences a retarding force created by its disturbance of the surrounding medium. In a previous contribution (Lee & Stahler 2011), we determined this dynamical friction force when…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Aaron T. Lee , Steven W. Stahler

We computationally study the frictional properties of sheared granular media subjected to harmonic vibration applied at the boundary. Such vibrations are thought to play an important role in weakening flows, yet the independent effects of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-29 Abram H. Clark , H. John Nasrin , Stephanie E. Taylor , Emily E. Brodsky

Using a powerful combination of projection-operator method and path-space response theory, we derive the fluctuation dynamics of a slow inertial probe coupled to a steady nonequilibrium medium under the assumption of time-scale separation.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-24 Ji-Hui Pei , Christian Maes

In this manuscript, we provide a general theory for how surface phonons couple to molecular adsorbates. Our theory maps the extended dynamics of a surface's atomic vibrational motions to a generalized Langevin equation, and by doing so…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Ardavan Farahvash , Adam P. Willard

Hysteresis-induced drift is a major issue in the detection of force induced during grinding and cutting operations. In this paper, we propose an external force estimation method based on the Mel spectrogram of the force obtained from a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Yuya Nogi , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Folded graphene flakes are a natural byproduct of the micromechanical exfoliation process. In this Letter we show by a combination of analytical and numerical methods that such systems behave as intriguing interferometers due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Diego Rainis , Fabio Taddei , Marco Polini , Gladys Leon , Francisco Guinea , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

In the field of phononics, periodic patterning controls vibrations and thereby the flow of heat and sound in matter. Bandgaps arising in such phononic crystals realize low-dissipation vibrational modes and enable applications towards…

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It has been known for decades that a magnetic field can deflect phonons as they flow in response to a thermal gradient, producing a thermal Hall effect. Several recent experiments have revealed ratios of the phonon Hall conductivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B. Flebus , A. H. MacDonald

Matter-wave interferometry is highly susceptible to inertial acceleration noises arising from the vibration of the experimental apparatus. There are various methods for noise suppression. In this paper, we propose leveraging the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Meng-Zhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

In recent studies, it has been discovered that phonons can carry angular momentum, leading to a series of investigations into systems with 3-fold rotation symmetry. However, for systems with 2-fold screw rotational symmetry, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-01 Meiqi Li , Zhibing Li , Huanjun Chen , Weiliang Wang

The rheology of a 3-dimensional granular system consisting of frictional elongated particles was investigated by means of discrete element model (DEM) calculations. A homogenous shear flow of frictional spherocyliders was simulated, and a…

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Digital video-microscopy measurements are reported of both elastic bandstructures and overdamped phonon decay times in two-dimensional colloidal crystals. Both quantities together allow to determine the friction coefficients along various…

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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a technique for coupling phonons out of an optomechanical crystal cavity. By designing a perturbation that breaks a symmetry in the elastic structure, we selectively induce phonon leakage without…

We address weak-coupling frictional sliding with phononic dissipation by means of analytic many-body techniques. Our model consists of a particle (the "slider") moving through a two- or three-dimensional crystal and interacting weakly with…

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Subgap resonances in the I-V curves of layered superconductors are explained by the coupling between Josephson oscillations and phonons with dispersion in c-direction. In the presence of a magnetic field applied parallel to the layers…

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Evidence is provided, from yet another experiment, for the existence of a mesoscale quantum of internal friction hysteresis, having the value of the electron rest energy divided by the fine structure constant.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Randall D. Peters

We develop a theoretical model for polarization-selective phonon pumping induced by magnon-phonon coupling in a ferromagnetic/non-magnetic acoustic bilayer structure, focusing on the effects arising from a misalignment between the magnetic…