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 …

Sound and heat revolutions in phononics

M Maldovan - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The phonon is the physical particle representing mechanical vibration and is responsible for
the transmission of everyday sound and heat. Understanding and controlling the phononic …

[HTML][HTML] Effective quality factor tuning mechanisms in micromechanical resonators

JML Miller, A Ansari, DB Heinz, Y Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

The neural code of auditory phantom perception

N Weisz, S Müller, W Schlee, K Dohrmann… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Tinnitus is defined by an auditory perception in the absence of an external source of sound.
This condition provides the distinctive possibility of extracting neural coding of perceptual …

Nanophononics: state of the art and perspectives

S Volz, J Ordonez-Miranda, A Shchepetov… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
Understanding and controlling vibrations in condensed matter is emerging as an essential
necessity both at fundamental level and for the development of a broad variety of …

Microcavity phonoritons–a coherent optical-to-microwave interface

AS Kuznetsov, K Biermann, AA Reynoso… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optomechanical systems provide a pathway for the bidirectional optical-to-microwave
interconversion in (quantum) networks. These systems can be implemented using hybrid …

Femtosecond electron imaging of defect-modulated phonon dynamics

DR Cremons, DA Plemmons, DJ Flannigan - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
Precise manipulation and control of coherent lattice oscillations via nanostructuring and
phonon-wave interference has the potential to significantly impact a broad array of …

Single-polariton optomechanics

J Restrepo, C Ciuti, I Favero - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
This Letter investigates a hybrid quantum system combining cavity quantum
electrodynamics and optomechanics. The Hamiltonian problem of a photon mode coupled …

-Phonon Bundle Emission via the Stokes Process

Q Bin, XY Lü, FP Laussy, F Nori, Y Wu - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate theoretically the bundle emission of n strongly correlated phonons in an
acoustic cavity QED system. The mechanism relies on Stokes resonances that generate …

Acoustic cavities in 2D heterostructures

MK Zalalutdinov, JT Robinson, JJ Fonseca… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer unique opportunities in engineering the
ultrafast spatiotemporal response of composite nanomechanical structures. In this work, we …