# Thermomechanical bistability of phase-transition oscillators driven by near-field heat exchange

## TL;DR

This paper predicts that phase-transition oscillators influenced by near-field heat exchange exhibit thermomechanical bistability near their critical temperature, enabling potential heat-based logic operations at microscale.

## Contribution

It introduces the concept of thermomechanical bistability in phase-transition oscillators driven by near-field heat exchange, a novel approach for heat-based information processing.

## Key findings

- Bistable thermomechanical behavior observed near critical temperature
- Potential for heat flux-based logic at microscale
- New insights into heat-driven phase-transition dynamics

## Abstract

Systems with multistable equilibrium states are of tremendous importance in information science to conceive logic gates. Here we predict that simple phase-transition oscillators driven by near-field heat exchanges have a bistable thermomechanical behavior around their critical temperature, opening so the way to a possible boolean treatment of information from heat flux at microscale.