The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Many important phenomena in quantum devices are dynamic, meaning that they cannot be
studied using time-averaged measurements alone. Experiments that measure such transient …

It is an open question whether mechanical resonators can be made nonlinear with vibrations
approaching the quantum ground state. This requires the engineering of a mechanical …

Mechanical oscillators have been demonstrated with very high quality factors over a wide
range of frequencies. They also couple to a wide variety of fields and forces, making them …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great attentions in the field of electronics, sensors,
healthcare, and energy conversion. Such emerging applications have driven the carbon …

Nanomechanical resonators are built into phones, as filters or accelerometers, but they lack
a knob to effectively tune the frequency at the nanoscale when it's easy to tune on an octave …

We demonstrate a trapped-ion system with two competing dissipation channels,
implemented independently on two ion species cotrapped in a Paul trap. By controlling …

The motion of a vibrating object is determined by the way it is held. This simple observation
has long inspired string instrument makers to create new sounds by devising elegant string …

Understanding the thermodynamics of driven quantum systems strongly coupled to thermal
baths is a central focus of quantum thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. A variety of …