Observing polarization patterns in the collective motion of nanomechanical arrays
| Autor: | Doster, Juliane, Shah, Tirth, Fösel, Thomas, Marquardt, Florian, Weig, Eva |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-022-30024-0 |
| Popis: | In recent years, nanomechanics has evolved into a mature field, with wide-ranging impact from sensing applications to fundamental physics, and it has now reached a stage which enables the fabrication and study of ever more elaborate devices. This has led to the emergence of arrays of coupled nanomechanical resonators as a promising field of research, serving as model systems to study collective dynamical phenomena such as synchronization or topological transport. From a general point of view, the arrays investigated so far represent scalar fields on a lattice. Moving to a scenario where these could be extended to vector fields would unlock a whole host of conceptually interesting additional phenomena, including the physics of polarization patterns in wave fields and their associated topology. Here we introduce a new platform, a two-dimensional array of coupled nanomechanical pillar resonators, whose orthogonal vibration directions encode a mechanical polarization degree of freedom. We demonstrate direct optical imaging of the collective dynamics, enabling us to analyze the emerging polarization patterns and follow their evolution with drive frequency. Comment: 7 pages main text, 5 figures, 11 pages appendices |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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