Nature Communications (May 2017)

Optically levitated nanoparticle as a model system for stochastic bistable dynamics

  • F. Ricci,
  • R. A. Rica,
  • M. Spasenović,
  • J. Gieseler,
  • L. Rondin,
  • L. Novotny,
  • R. Quidant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15141
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Nano-mechanical resonators improve with high-Q factor and light mass, but this leads to the onset of nonlinear behaviour. Here the authors demonstrate precise control of the non-linear and bistable dynamics of a levitated nanoparticle in vacuum, using it as model system to study stochastic bistable phenomena.