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Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Dec 08;119(23):234101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.234101. Epub 2017 Dec 06.

Phase Stochastic Resonance in a Forced Nanoelectromechanical Membrane.

Physical review letters

Avishek Chowdhury, Sylvain Barbay, Marcel G Clerc, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Rémy Braive

Affiliations

  1. Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, C2N Marcoussis, 91460 Marcoussis, France.
  2. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile.
  3. Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 75207 Paris Cedex 13, France.

PMID: 29286702 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.234101

Abstract

Stochastic resonance is a general phenomenon usually observed in one-dimensional, amplitude modulated, bistable systems. We show experimentally the emergence of phase stochastic resonance in the bidimensional response of a forced nanoelectromechanical membrane by evidencing the enhancement of a weak phase modulated signal thanks to the addition of phase noise. Based on a general forced Duffing oscillator model, we demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that phase noise acts multiplicatively, inducing important physical consequences. These results may open interesting prospects for phase noise metrology or coherent signal transmission applications in nanomechanical oscillators. Moreover, our approach, due to its general character, may apply to various systems.

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