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{"title":"Ultrafast demagnetization in ferromagnetic materials: Origins and progress","authors":"Xiaowen Chen ,&nbsp;Roman Adam ,&nbsp;Daniel E. Bürgler ,&nbsp;Fangzhou Wang ,&nbsp;Zhenyan Lu ,&nbsp;Lining Pan ,&nbsp;Sarah Heidtfeld ,&nbsp;Christian Greb ,&nbsp;Meihong Liu ,&nbsp;Qingfang Liu ,&nbsp;Jianbo Wang ,&nbsp;Claus M. Schneider ,&nbsp;Derang Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since the discovery of ultrafast demagnetization in Ni thin films in 1996, laser-induced ultrafast spin dynamics have become a prominent research topic in the field of magnetism and spintronics. This development offers new possibilities for the advancement of spintronics and magnetic storage technology. The subject has drawn a substantial number of researchers, leading to a series of research endeavors. Various models have been proposed to elucidate the physical processes underlying laser-induced ultrafast spin dynamics in ferromagnetic materials. However, the potential origins of these processes across different material systems and the true contributions of these different origins remain challenging in the realm of ultrafast spin dynamics. This predicament also hinders the development of spintronic terahertz emitters.</div><div>In this review, we initially introduce the different experimental methods used in laser-induced ultrafast spin dynamics. We then systematically explore the magnetization precession process and present seven models of ultrafast demagnetization in ferromagnetic materials. Subsequently, we discuss the physical processes and research status of four ultrafast demagnetization origins (including spin-flipping, spin transport, non-thermal electronic distribution, and laser-induced lattice strain). Since attosecond laser technique and antiferromagnetic materials exhibit promising applications in ultrahigh-frequency spintronics, we acknowledge the emerging studies used by attosecond pulses and studies on ultrafast spin dynamics in antiferromagnets, noting the significant challenges that need to be addressed in these burgeoning field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1102 ","pages":"Pages 1-63"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Large fluctuations and primordial black holes","authors":"Sayantan Choudhury ,&nbsp;M. Sami","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we review in detail different mechanisms of generation of large primordial fluctuations and their implications for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and scalar-induced secondary gravity waves (SIGW), with the ultimate aim of understanding the impact of loop correction on quantum correlations and the power spectrum. To accomplish the goal, we provide a concise, comprehensive, but in depth review of conceptual and technical details of the standard model of the universe, namely, causal structure and inflation, quantization of primordial perturbations and field theoretic techniques such as “in-in” formalism needed for the estimation of loop correction to the power spectrum. We discuss at length the severe constraints (no-go) on PBH production in single-field inflation imposed by appropriately renormalized quantum loop corrections, computed while maintaining the validity of the perturbation framework and assuming sufficient inflation to address the causality problem. Thereafter, we discuss in detail the efforts to circumvent the no-go result in Galileon inflation, multiple sharp transition (MST)-induced inflation, and stochastic single field inflation using an effective field theoretic (EFT) framework applicable to a variety of models. We provide a thorough analysis of the Dynamical Renormalization Group (DRG) resummation approach, adiabatic and late-time renormalization schemes, and their use in producing solar and sub-solar mass PBHs. Additionally, we give a summary of how scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) are produced in MST setups and Galileon inflation. Finally, the PBH overproduction issue is thoroughly discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1103 ","pages":"Pages 1-276"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Majorana quasiparticles in atomic spin chains on superconductors","authors":"Stephan Rachel ,&nbsp;Roland Wiesendanger","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For the past decade, Majorana quasiparticles have become one of the hot topics in condensed matter research. Besides the fundamental interest in the realization of particles being their own antiparticles, going back to basic concepts of elementary particle physics, Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter systems offer exciting potential applications in topological quantum computation due to their non-Abelian quantum exchange statistics. Motivated by theoretical predictions about possible realizations of Majorana quasiparticles as zero-energy modes at boundaries of topological superconductors, experimental efforts have focussed in particular on quasi-one-dimensional semiconductor–superconductor and magnet–superconductor hybrid systems. However, an unambiguous proof of the existence of Majorana quasiparticles is still challenging and requires considerable improvements in materials science, atomic-scale characterization and control of interface quality, as well as complementary approaches of detecting various facets of Majorana quasiparticles. Bottom-up atom-by-atom fabrication of disorder-free atomic spin chains on atomically clean superconducting substrates has recently allowed deep insight into the emergence of topological sub-gap Shiba bands and associated Majorana states from the level of individual atoms up to extended chains, thereby offering the possibility for critical tests of Majorana physics in disorder-free model-type 1D hybrid systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1099 ","pages":"Pages 1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The energy level spectrum of the yellow excitons in cuprous oxide","authors":"J. Heckötter ,&nbsp;A. Farenbruch ,&nbsp;D. Fröhlich ,&nbsp;M. Aßmann ,&nbsp;D.R. Yakovlev ,&nbsp;M. Bayer ,&nbsp;M.A. Semina ,&nbsp;M.M. Glazov ,&nbsp;P. Rommel ,&nbsp;J. Ertl ,&nbsp;J. Main ,&nbsp;H. Stolz","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This article discusses the experimental status achieved in the assessment of the hydrogen-like series of Wannier–Mott excitons, using the semiconductor cuprous oxide, Cu&lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;msub&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;/msub&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt;O, as material platform. While for other crystals the observed exciton series are limited to low principal quantum numbers &lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and typically a particular orbital angular momentum &lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, recently a major extension of the number of detected states has been achieved for the so-called yellow exciton series in cuprous oxide. About 60 quantum number combinations &lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;mo&gt;,&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, defining different shells of possible exciton states, were detected in high-resolution one-photon absorption and second harmonic generation spectroscopy, also complemented with application of external electric or magnetic fields. The extension concerns not only the optically active states (the orthoexcitons) that are allowed in different orders of light–matter coupling, but also the states that are optically forbidden due to spin conservation in optical transitions (the paraexcitons). The hydrogen model provides a good overall description of the exciton level spectrum. However, an analysis with sufficient energy resolution reveals significant deviations evidenced by shell splittings, which arise from breaking of the rotational into discrete symmetries in the cubic crystal environment. The resulting fine structure splitting between different shells and within a shell &lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;mo&gt;(&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;mi&gt;n&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;mo&gt;,&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;mo&gt;)&lt;/mo&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is mainly determined by the valence band dispersion in Cu&lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;msub&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;mrow&gt;&lt;mn&gt;2&lt;/mn&gt;&lt;/mrow&gt;&lt;/msub&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt;O showing pronounced band mixing effects. The corresponding extensions in the exciton Hamiltonian bear similarity to those causing the fine structure splitting in hydrogen, namely a higher order kinetic energy term and a spin–orbit coupling term. In addition, the electron–hole exchange interaction arising for the orthoexcitons and corrections to the dielectric screening provide further contributions to the fine structure splitting. As a consequence, the hydrogen wavefunctions are valid only approximately for describing excitons, being in fact coupled in the exciton envelopes. Despite the broken &lt;span&gt;&lt;math&gt;&lt;mi&gt;L&lt;/mi&gt;&lt;/math&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-degeneracy of the exciton levels, further symmetry protected degeneracies remain, which can be removed by applying external fields. We describe the evolution of the fine structure spectrum in electric and magnetic fields towards Stark ladders and Landau fans, respectively. The optical spectra depend on the crystal orientation relative to the external field in addition to their dependence on the chosen optical axis. Also, the deviations from an isotropic medium become obvious, as the symm","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1100 ","pages":"Pages 1-69"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142659335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Network modeling and topology of aging","authors":"Li Feng ,&nbsp;Dengcheng Yang ,&nbsp;Sinan Wu ,&nbsp;Chengwen Xue ,&nbsp;Mengmeng Sang ,&nbsp;Xiang Liu ,&nbsp;Jincan Che ,&nbsp;Jie Wu ,&nbsp;Claudia Gragnoli ,&nbsp;Christopher Griffin ,&nbsp;Chen Wang ,&nbsp;Shing-Tung Yau ,&nbsp;Rongling Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aging is a universal process of age-dependent physiological and functional declines that are strongly associated with human diseases. Despite extensive studies of the molecular causes of aging, little is known about the overall landscape of how aging proceeds and how it is related with intrinsic and extrinsic agents. Aging is a complex trait involving a large number of interdependent factors that change over spatiotemporal scales like a complex system. We develop an interdisciplinary form of statistical mechanics to reconstruct aging-related informative, dynamic, omnidirectional, and personalized networks (idopNetworks) from experimental or clinical data. The idopNetwork model can reveal how a specific biological entity, such as genes, proteins, or metabolites, mediates the antedependence of aging (i.e., the dependence of current trait values on their previous expression), identify how spatiotemporal crosstalk across different organs accelerate or decelerate the rate of aging, and predict how an individual’s chronological age differs from his biological age. We implement GLMY homology theory to dissect the topological architecture and function of aging networks, identifying key subnetworks, surface holes and cubic voids that shape the rate of aging. Aging studies can be ideally conducted by monitoring molecular, physiological, and clinical traits over the full lifecycle. However, it is both impossible and ethically impermissible to collect the kind of data from which idopNetworks are reconstructed. To overcome this limitation, we integrate an allometric scaling law into the model to extract dynamics from snapshots of static data from a population-based cross-sectional study, expanding the utility of the model to a broader domain of cohort data. We show how this model can be used to unravel and predict the biological mechanisms underlying aging by analyzing an experimental metabolic data set of multiple brain regions in the aging mouse and a cross-sectional physiological data set of the lung for smoking and nonsmoking males aged from 20 years to nearly centenarians from the China Pulmonary Health Study. The model opens up a new horizon for studying how aging occurs through intrinsic and extrinsic interactions and could be used as a generic tool to disentangle human aging using various types of molecular, phenotypic or clinical data.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1101 ","pages":"Pages 1-65"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A review of quantum correlation sharing: The recycling of quantum correlations triggered by quantum measurements","authors":"Zinuo Cai ,&nbsp;Changliang Ren ,&nbsp;Tianfeng Feng ,&nbsp;Xiaoqi Zhou ,&nbsp;Jingling Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Quantum correlation and quantum measurement are core issues in understanding the quantum world. Revealing quantum correlations in microphysical systems through proper quantum measurements became an important research topic in the last century and gave rise to the birth of quantum information technologies. However, quantum correlations, quantum measurements, and their relationship are not yet fully understood and require further clarification. The development of generalized quantum measurement and non-destructive measurement provides new possibilities for studying these issues. In the past decade, a series of studies on quantum correlation sharing through sequential generalized measurements have unveiled a new avenue for exploring quantum correlations. These studies not only have important fundamental significance, but also involve the unexplored issue of quantum resource recycling. This review thoroughly examines recent advancements in quantum correlation sharing. It begins by elucidating the fundamental reasons for quantum correlation sharing based on the interpretation of joint probabilities, and discussing the basic definitions and concepts. Next, the sharing of Bell nonlocality under different measurement strategies and scenarios is carefully examined, especially pointing out the impact of these strategies on the maximum number of parties that can exhibit Bell nonlocality. The subsequent chapters provide an overview of other forms of quantum correlation sharing, including quantum steering, network nonlocality, quantum entanglement, and quantum contextuality. Furthermore, we summarize the advancements in the application of quantum correlation sharing across various quantum tasks, highlighting examples such as quantum random access codes, random number generation, and self-testing tasks. Finally, we discuss and enumerate some key unresolved issues in this research area, concluding this review.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1098 ","pages":"Pages 1-53"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Six decades of the FitzHugh–Nagumo model: A guide through its spatio-temporal dynamics and influence across disciplines","authors":"Daniel Cebrián-Lacasa ,&nbsp;Pedro Parra-Rivas ,&nbsp;Daniel Ruiz-Reynés ,&nbsp;Lendert Gelens","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The FitzHugh–Nagumo equation, originally conceived in neuroscience during the 1960s, became a key model providing a simplified view of excitable neuron cell behavior. Its applicability, however, extends beyond neuroscience into fields like cardiac physiology, cell division, population dynamics, electronics, and other natural phenomena. In this review spanning six decades of research, we discuss the diverse spatio-temporal dynamical behaviors described by the FitzHugh–Nagumo equation. These include dynamics like bistability, oscillations, and excitability, but it also addresses more complex phenomena such as traveling waves and extended patterns in coupled systems. The review serves as a guide for modelers aiming to utilize the strengths of the FitzHugh–Nagumo model to capture generic dynamical behavior. It not only catalogs known dynamical states and bifurcations, but also extends previous studies by providing stability and bifurcation analyses for coupled spatial systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1096 ","pages":"Pages 1-39"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142539561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anomalous soft photons: Status and perspectives","authors":"R. Bailhache ,&nbsp;D. Bonocore ,&nbsp;P. Braun-Munzinger ,&nbsp;X. Feal ,&nbsp;S. Floerchinger ,&nbsp;J. Klein ,&nbsp;K. Köhler ,&nbsp;P. Lebiedowicz ,&nbsp;C.M. Peter ,&nbsp;R. Rapp ,&nbsp;K. Reygers ,&nbsp;W. Schäfer ,&nbsp;H.S. Scheid ,&nbsp;K. Schweda ,&nbsp;J. Stachel ,&nbsp;H. van Hees ,&nbsp;C.A. van Veen ,&nbsp;M. Völkl","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This report summarizes the work of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on “Real and Virtual Photon Production at Ultra-Low Transverse Momentum and Low Mass at the LHC”. We provide an overview of the soft-photon puzzle, i.e., of the long-standing discrepancy between experimental data and predictions based on Low’s soft-photon theorem, also referred to as “anomalous” soft photon production, and we review the current theoretical understanding of soft radiation and soft theorems. We also focus on low-mass dileptons as a tool for determining the electrical conductivity of the medium produced in high-energy nucleus–nucleus collisions. We discuss how both topics can be addressed with the planned ALICE 3 detector at the LHC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1097 ","pages":"Pages 1-40"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysing quantum systems with randomised measurements","authors":"Paweł Cieśliński ,&nbsp;Satoya Imai ,&nbsp;Jan Dziewior ,&nbsp;Otfried Gühne ,&nbsp;Lukas Knips ,&nbsp;Wiesław Laskowski ,&nbsp;Jasmin Meinecke ,&nbsp;Tomasz Paterek ,&nbsp;Tamás Vértesi","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Measurements with randomly chosen settings determine many important properties of quantum states without the need for a shared reference frame or calibration. They naturally emerge in the context of quantum communication and quantum computing when dealing with noisy environments, and allow the estimation of properties of complex quantum systems in an easy and efficient manner. In this review, we present the advancements made in utilising randomised measurements in various scenarios of quantum information science. We describe how to detect and characterise different forms of entanglement, including genuine multipartite entanglement and bound entanglement. Bell inequalities are discussed to be typically violated even with randomised measurements, especially for a growing number of particles and settings. Furthermore, we also present an overview on the estimation of non-linear functions of quantum states and shadow tomography from randomised measurements. Throughout the review, we complement the description of theoretical ideas by explaining key experiments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1095 ","pages":"Pages 1-48"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamics of large oscillations in electrostatic MEMS","authors":"Majed S. Alghamdi ,&nbsp;Mahmoud E. Khater ,&nbsp;Mohamed Arabi ,&nbsp;Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman","doi":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.physrep.2024.09.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present a comprehensive experimental study of the dynamics of electrostatic MEMS resonators under large excitations. We identified three frequency ranges where large oscillations occur; a non-resonant region driven by fast–slow dynamic interactions and two resonant regions. In these regions, we found a plethora of dynamic phenomena including cascades of period-doubling bifurcations, a bubble structure, homoclinic and cyclic-fold bifurcations, hysteresis, intermittencies, quasiperiodicity, chaotic attractors, odd-periodic windows within those attractors, Shilnikov orbits, and Shilnikov chaos.</div><div>We encountered these complex nonlinear dynamics phenomena under relatively high dissipation levels, the quality factors of the resonators examined in this study were Q <span><math><mo>=</mo></math></span> 6.2 and 2.1. In the case of MEMS with higher quality factors <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>&gt;</mo><mn>100</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>, it is quite reasonable to expect those phenomena to appear under relatively low excitation levels (compared to the static pull-in voltage). This calls for a new paradigm in the design of electrostatic MEMS that seeks to manage dynamic phenomena rather than attempt to avoid them and, thereby, overly restricting the design space. We believe this is feasible given the repeatable and predictable nature of those phenomena.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":404,"journal":{"name":"Physics Reports","volume":"1094 ","pages":"Pages 1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":23.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}