Logic Operations Demonstrated with Localized Vibrations in a Micromechanical Cantilever Array

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates a novel method for performing logic operations using localized vibrations in a micromechanical cantilever array, controlling ILMs through timed lattice disturbances to encode binary states.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach to logic operations by manipulating intrinsic localized modes in a micromechanical system via inhomogeneous fields.

Findings

Logic states are encoded by the presence or absence of ILMs.

Timed lattice disturbances can create or destroy ILMs.

The method enables logic operations in micromechanical arrays.

Abstract

A method is presented for realizing logic operations in a micromechanical cantilever array based on the timed application of a lattice disturbance to control the properties of intrinsic localized modes (ILMs). The application of a specific inhomogeneous field destroys a driver-locked ILM, while the same operation can create an ILM if initially no-ILM exists. Logic states "1" and "0" correspond to "present" or "absent" ILM.