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Health & Science2h 14m ago

Researchers found that chaotic dynamics in an optomechanical system can be steered by manipulating the interplay between linear, quadratic, and cubic interactions between light and mechanical vibration.

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Who
A. P. Saiko and colleagues at National Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences and Minsk 220072 Belarus 2 Institute of Molecular Physics
What
Researchers found that chaotic dynamics in an optomechanical system can be steered by manipulating the interplay between linear, quadratic, and cubic interactions between light and mechanical vibration.
When
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:56:15 GMT · 2h 14m ago
Where
Minsk ·
Why
The research challenges the common assumption that increasing nonlinearity always leads to more chaotic behaviour, by demonstrating that chaotic motion can be induced, suppressed, and then reintroduced.
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This discovery of controlling chaotic dynamics in optomechanical systems could allow for building more stable and precise sensors and potentially lead to advancements in computing architectures by enabling better manipulation of quantum states.

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    Researchers found that chaotic dynamics in an optomechanical system can be steered by manipulating the interplay between linear, quadratic, and cubic interactions between light and mechanical vibration.
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    Researchers have revealed that chaos in optomechanical systems does not simply increase with stronger nonlinearity, but can be suppressed then re-induced depending on the specific interactions at play.
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