Noise-enabled precision measurements of a Duffing nanomechanical resonator

Details Noise-enabled precision measurements of a Duffing nanomechanical resonator Noise-enabled precision measurements of a Duffing nanomechanical resonator

2004-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406528v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.156403

We report quantitative experimental measurements of the nonlinear response of a radiofrequency mechanical resonator, with very high quality factor, driven by a large swept-frequency force. We directly measure the noise-free transition dynamics between the two basins of attraction that appear in the nonlinear regime, and find good agreement with those predicted by the one-dimensional Duffing equation of motion. We then measure the response of the transition rates to controlled levels of white noise, and extract the activation energy from each basin. The measurements of the noise-induced transitions allow us to obtain precise values for the critical frequencies, the natural resonance frequency, and the cubic nonlinear parameter in the Duffing oscillator, with direct applications to high sensitivity parametric sensors based on these resonators.

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