The dynamics of suspended two-dimensional (2D) materials has received increasing
attention during the last decade, yielding new techniques to study and interpret the physics …

Single-layer graphene is so flexible that its flexural mode (also called the ZA mode, bending
mode, or out-of-plane transverse acoustic mode) is important for its thermal and mechanical …

Energy dissipation is an unavoidable phenomenon of physical systems that are directly
coupled to an external environmental bath. In an oscillatory system, it leads to the decay of …

Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

Mechanical sources of nonlinear damping play a central role in modern physics, from solid-
state physics to thermodynamics. The microscopic theory of mechanical dissipation …

Energy decay plays a central role in a wide range of phenomena 1, 2, 3, such as optical
emission, nuclear fission, and dissipation in quantum systems. Energy decay is usually …

Advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies have enabled the development of
novel micro-and nanomechanical resonators which have attracted significant attention due …

We prove analytically and show numerically that the dynamics of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-
Tsingou chain is characterized by a transient Burgers turbulence regime on a wide range of …

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials has gained worldwide attention owing to
their extraordinary optical, electrical, and mechanical properties. Due to their atomic layer …

A unique feature of two-dimensional (2D) materials is the ultralow friction at their van der
Waals interfaces. A key question in a new generation of 2D heterostructure-based …