Coherent Signal Amplification in Bistable Nanomechanical Oscillators by Stochastic Resonance

Details Coherent Signal Amplification in Bistable Nanomechanical Oscillators by Stochastic Resonance Coherent Signal Amplification in Bistable Nanomechanical Oscillators by Stochastic Resonance

2006-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603108v1

Nature 437, 995-998 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

18 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1038/nature04124

Stochastic resonance is a counter-intuitive concept[1,2], ; the addition of noise to a noisy system induces coherent amplification of its response. First suggested as a mechanism for the cyclic recurrence of ice ages, stochastic resonance has been seen in a wide variety of macroscopic physical systems: bistable ring lasers[3], SQUIDs[4,5], magnetoelastic ribbons[6], and neurophysiological systems such as the receptors in crickets[7] and crayfish[8]. Although it is fundamentally important as a mechanism of coherent signal amplification, stochastic resonance is yet to be observed in nanoscale systems. Here we report the observation of stochastic resonance in bistable nanomechanical silicon oscillators, which can play an important role in the realization of controllable high-speed nanomechanical memory cells. Our nanomechanical systems were excited into a dynamic bistable state and modulated in order to induce controllable switching; the addition of white noise showed a marked amplification of the signal strength. Stochastic resonance in nanomechanical systems paves the way for exploring macroscopic quantum coherence and tunneling, and controlling nanoscale quantum systems for their eventual use as robust quantum logic devices.

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