Thermomechanical bistability of phase-transition oscillators driven by near-field heat exchange
arXiv:1907.06411 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.041409
Abstract
Systems with multistable equilibrium states are of tremendous importance in information science to conceive logic gates. Here we predict that simple phase-transition oscillators driven by near-field heat exchanges have a bistable thermomechanical behavior around their critical temperature, opening so the way to a possible boolean treatment of information from heat flux at microscale.
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