Noise-Enabled Precision Measurements of a Duffing Nanomechanical Resonator
Noise-Enabled Precision Measurements of a Duffing Nanomechanical Resonator
We report quantitative measurements of the nonlinear response of a radio frequency mechanical resonator with a very high quality factor. We measure the noise-free transitions between the two basins of attraction that appear in the nonlinear regime, and find good agreement with theory. We measure the transition rate response to …