Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

The ability to control mechanical motion with optical forces has made it possible to cool
mechanical resonators to their quantum ground states. The same techniques can also be …

We report quantitative measurements of the nonlinear response of a radio frequency
mechanical resonator with a very high quality factor. We measure the noise-free transitions …

Phononic frequency combs have attracted increasing attention both as a qualitatively new
type of nonlinear phenomena in vibrational systems and from the point of view of …

Based on the method of canonical transformation of variables and the classical perturbation
theory, this innovative book treats the systematic theory of symplectic mappings for …

Non-monotonic dynamics of nonlinear continuous structures, ie, mixed hardening
(H)/softening (S) behavior in the vicinity of H/S transition, is comprehensively investigated by …

Mechanical resonators are widely used as precision clocks and sensitive detectors that rely
on the stability of their eigenfrequencies. The phase noise is determined by different factors …

Brownian motors, or ratchets, are devices which “rectify” Brownian motion; that is, they can
generate a current of particles out of unbiased fluctuations. The ratchet effect is a very …

We propose a new mechanism of friction in resonantly driven vibrational systems. The form
of the friction force follows from the time-and spatial-symmetry arguments. We consider a …

The magnetic confinement concept of thermonuclear plasma is one of the areas of
controlled fusion research developing in the past 50 years in a quest for clean and unlimited …