Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Applications of stochastic resonance to machinery fault detection: A review and tutorial

Z Qiao, Y Lei, N Li - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
Fault detection is a key tool to ensure the safety and reliability of machinery. In machinery
fault detection, signal processing methods are extensively applied to extract fault …

Weak signal enhancement by nonlinear resonance control in a forced nano-electromechanical resonator

A Chowdhury, MG Clerc, S Barbay… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Driven non-linear resonators can display sharp resonances or even multistable behaviours
amenable to induce strong enhancements of weak signals. Such enhancements can make …

Extremely broadband stochastic resonance of light and enhanced energy harvesting enabled by memory effects in the nonlinear response

KJH Peters, Z Geng, K Malmir, JM Smith… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report the first observation of non-Markovian stochastic resonance (SR), and we
discover that memory effects in the nonlinearity extremely enlarge the SR bandwidth. Our …

Exceptional precision of a nonlinear optical sensor at a square-root singularity

KJH Peters, SRK Rodriguez - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Exceptional points (EPs)—spectral singularities of non-Hermitian linear systems—have
recently attracted interest for sensing. While initial proposals and experiments focused on …

Chimera states in a Duffing oscillators chain coupled to nearest neighbors

MG Clerc, S Coulibaly, MA Ferré… - … Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Coupled nonlinear oscillators can present complex spatiotemporal behaviors. Here, we
report the coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains, called chimera states, in an …

Precision calibration of the duffing oscillator with phase control

MT Cuairan, J Gieseler, N Meyer, R Quidant - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The Duffing oscillator is a nonlinear extension of the ubiquitous harmonic oscillator and as
such plays an outstanding role in science and technology. Experimentally, the system …

Coherent interferometric control of strongly-coupled nano-electromechanical resonators

F Correia, G Jara-Schulz, G Madiot, S Barbay… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The interferometric control of dissipation in a two-port system is a fruitful concept enabling
the enhancement or cancellation of the input amplitudes as a function of their relative …

Using the transient trajectories of an optically levitated nanoparticle to characterize a stochastic Duffing oscillator

J Flajšmanová, M Šiler, P Jedlička, F Hrubý… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
We propose a novel methodology to estimate parameters characterizing a weakly nonlinear
Duffing oscillator represented by an optically levitating nanoparticle. The method is based …

Vibrational resonance amplification in a thermo-optic optomechanical nanocavity

G Madiot, S Barbay, R Braive - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Vibrational resonance is a generic phenomenon found in many different bistable systems
whereby a weak low-frequency signal is amplified by use of an additional nonresonant high …