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Quasicrystal Architected Nanomechanical Resonators via Data-Driven Design
Kawen Li, Hangjin Cho, Richard Norte +1
From butterfly wings to remnants of nuclear detonation, aperiodic order repeatedly emerges in nature, often exhibiting reduced sensitivity to boundaries and symmetry constraints. I…
Cascade of Modal Interactions in Nanomechanical Resonators with Soft Clamping
Zichao Li, Minxing Xu, Richard A. Norte +3
We uncover a chain of nonlinear modal interactions in softly clamped nanostring resonators. The process involves the sequential coupling of five mechanical modes, during frequency…
High-Resolution Casimir Force Sensing Across a Superconducting Transition
Minxing Xu, Robbie J. G. Elbertse, Ata Keşkekler +4
The Casimir effect and superconductivity are foundational quantum phenomena whose interplay is an open question in physics, with significant implications for electron physics, quan…
Finite Element-based Nonlinear Dynamic Optimization of Nanomechanical Resonators
Zichao Li, Farbod Alijani, Ali Sarafraz +4
Nonlinear dynamic simulations of mechanical resonators have been facilitated by the advent of computational techniques that generate nonlinear reduced order models (ROMs) using the…
Pentagonal Photonic Crystal Mirrors: Scalable Lightsails with Enhanced Acceleration via Neural Topology Optimization
L. Norder, S. Yin, M. J. de Jong +5
The Starshot Breakthrough Initiative aims to send one-gram microchip probes to Alpha Centauri within 20 years, using gram-scale lightsails propelled by laser-based radiation pressu…
Negative Temperature Pressure in Black Holes
Richard A. Norte
The concept of negative temperature (T < 0) is unique to quantum physics and describes systems that are hotter than any positive temperature system. For decades negative temperatur…
Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation
Andrea Cupertino, Dongil Shin, Leo Guo +3
High-aspect-ratio mechanical resonators are pivotal in precision sensing, from macroscopic gravitational wave detectors to nanoscale acoustics. However, fabrication challenges and…
High-Strength Amorphous Silicon Carbide for Nanomechanics
Minxing Xu, Dongil Shin, Paolo M. Sberna +4
For decades, mechanical resonators with high sensitivity have been realized using thin-film materials under high tensile loads. Although there have been remarkable strides in achie…
A Fiber-coupled Scanning Magnetometer with Nitrogen-Vacancy Spins in a Diamond Nanobeam
Yufan Li, Fabian A. Gerritsma, Samer Kurdi +5
Magnetic imaging with nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamond is becoming an established tool for studying nanoscale physics in condensed matter systems. However, the optical access…
Beating ringdowns of near-degenerate mechanical resonances
Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Andrea Cupertino, Dongil Shin +4
Mechanical resonators that possess coupled modes with harmonic frequency relations have recently sparked interest due to their suitability for controllable energy transfer and non-…
Mechanical dissipation by substrate-mode coupling in SiN resonators
Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Malte A. ten Wolde, Andrea Cupertino +3
State-of-the-art nanomechanical resonators are heralded as a central component for next-generation clocks, filters, resonant sensors and quantum technologies. To practically build…
Mechanical overtone frequency combs
Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Adarsh Ganesan, Andrea Cupertino +2
Mechanical frequency combs are poised to bring the applications and utility of optical frequency combs into the mechanical domain. So far, their main challenge has been strict requ…
Resolution Limits of Resonant Sensors with Duffing Non-Linearity
Tomás Manzaneque, Murali K. Ghatkesar, Farbod Alijani +3
The resolution of resonant sensors is fundamentally limited by the presence of noise. Thermomechanical noise, intrinsic to the resonator, sets the ultimate sensor performance when…
Spiderweb nanomechanical resonators via Bayesian optimization: inspired by nature and guided by machine learning
Dongil Shin, Andrea Cupertino, Matthijs H. J. de Jong +3
From ultra-sensitive detectors of fundamental forces to quantum networks and sensors, mechanical resonators are enabling next-generation technologies to operate in room temperature…
Coherent mechanical noise cancellation and cooperativity competition in optomechanical arrays
Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Jie Li, Claus Gärtner +2
Studying the interplay between multiple coupled mechanical resonators is a promising new direction in the field of optomechanics. Understanding the dynamics of the interaction can…
Quantum Weak Equivalence Principle and the Gravitational Casimir Effect in Superconductors
Sebastian Bahamonde, Mir Faizal, James Q. Quach +1
We will use Fisher information to properly analyze the quantum weak equivalence principle. We argue that gravitational waves will be partially reflected by superconductors. This wi…
Efficient microwave frequency conversion mediated by the vibrational motion of a silicon nitride nanobeam oscillator
J. M. Fink, M. Kalaee, R. Norte +2
Microelectromechanical systems and integrated photonics provide the basis for many reliable and compact circuit elements in modern communication systems. Electro-opto-mechanical de…
Feedback cooling of a room temperature mechanical oscillator close to its motional groundstate
Jingkun Guo, Richard A. Norte, Simon Gröblacher
Preparing mechanical systems in their lowest possible entropy state, the quantum ground state, starting from a room temperature environment is a key challenge in quantum optomechan…
Microwave-to-optics conversion using a mechanical oscillator in its quantum groundstate
Moritz Forsch, Robert Stockill, Andreas Wallucks +7
Conversion between signals in the microwave and optical domains is of great interest both for classical telecommunication, as well as for connecting future superconducting quantum…
Integrated optomechanical arrays of two high reflectivity SiN membranes
Claus Gärtner, João P. Moura, Wouter Haaxman +2
Multi-element cavity optomechanics constitutes a direction to observe novel effects with mechanical resonators. Several exciting ideas include superradiance, increased optomechanic…
Platform for measurements of the Casimir force between two superconductors
Richard A. Norte, Moritz Forsch, Andreas Wallucks +2
Several experimental demonstrations of the Casimir force between two closely spaced bodies have been realized over the past two decades. Extending the theory to incorporate the beh…
Near-field coupling of a levitated nanoparticle to a photonic crystal cavity
Lorenzo Magrini, Richard A. Norte, Ralf Riedinger +6
Quantum control of levitated dielectric particles is an emerging subject in quantum optomechanics. A major challenge is to efficiently measure and manipulate the particle's motion…
Nanofabricated tips for device-based scanning tunneling microscopy
Maarten Leeuwenhoek, Richard A. Norte, Koen M. Bastiaans +5
We report on the fabrication and performance of a new kind of tip for scanning tunneling microscopy. By fully incorporating a metallic tip on a silicon chip using modern micromachi…
Centimeter-scale suspended photonic crystal mirrors
Joao P. Moura, Richard A. Norte, Jingkun Guo +2
Demand for lightweight, highly reflective and mechanically compliant mirrors for optics experiments has seen a significant surge. In this aspect, photonic crystal (PhC) membranes a…