Nature Communications (May 2017)
Optically levitated nanoparticle as a model system for stochastic bistable dynamics
Abstract
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.