We investigate bistability and memory effects in a molecular junction weakly coupled to metallic leads with the latter being subject to an adiabatic periodic change of the bias voltage. The system is described by a simple Anderson-Holstein model and its dynamics is calculated via a master equation approach. The controlled electrical switching between the many-body states of the system is achiev...

The intrinsic doping level of graphene prepared by mechanical exfoliation and standard lithography procedures on thermally oxidized silicon varies significantly and seems to depend strongly on processing details and the substrate morphology. Moreover, transport properties of such graphene devices suffer from hysteretic behavior under ambient conditions. The hysteresis presumably originates from...

Memristor exhibit interesting and valuable circuit properties and have thus become the subject of increasing scientific interest. Scientists wonder if they can conceive a microwave memristor that behaves as a memristor operating with electromagnetic fields. Here, we report a microwave memristive-like nonlinear phenomenon at room temperature in dielectric metamaterials consisting of CaTiO3-ZrO2 ...

We study the problem of secondary frequency regulation where ancillary services are provided via load-side participation. In particular, we consider on-off loads that switch when prescribed frequency thresholds are exceeded in order to assist existing secondary frequency control mechanisms. We show that system stability is not compromised despite the switching nature of the loads. However, such...

We report a Monte Carlo study of the hysteretic behavior of the site-diluted Ising antiferromagnet on a simple-cubic lattice. States found by reducing the magnetic field from an initial value in the paramagnetic phase show no long-range antiferromagnetic order, whereas states found by increasing the magnetic field from an initially ordered state do show long-range order until the field is incre...

A kind of Ti-Ni shape memory alloy (SMA) hysteretic nonlinear model is developed, and the loss mechanism of a SMA tracheal stent subjected to cough excitation is studied in this paper. Nonlinear differential items are introduced to express the hysteretic phenomena of Ti-Ni SMA, and the fitting effect of the SMA constitutive model on the experimental data is proved by the partial least-square re...

Identification of the nonlinear hysteretic behavior of a reinforced concrete (RC) bridge pier subjected to earthquake loads is carried out based on acceleration measurements of the earthquake motion and bridge responses. The modified Takeda model is employed to represent the hysteretic behavior of the RC pier with a small number of parameters, in which the nonlinear behavior is described by var...

The proprotein convertases (PCs) are calcium-dependent proteases responsible for processing precursor proteins into their active forms in eukariotes. The PC1/3 is a pivotal enzyme of this family that participates in the proteolytic maturation of prohormones and neuropeptides inside the regulated secretory pathway. In this paper we demonstrate that mouse proprotein convertase 1/3 (mPC1/3) has a ...

This paper investigates an alternative mass sensing technique based on nonlinear micro/nanoelectromechanical resonant sensors. The proposed approach takes advantage of multi-stability and bifurcations of the hysteretic frequency responses of the electrostatically-actuated resonator. For this purpose, a reduced-order model is considered. Numerical results show that sudden jumps in amplitude make...

In this paper the semi-active control is achieved by a base isolation system. The magnetorheological dampers (MRD) hysteretic force is described by models based on nonlinear differential equation Bouc-Wen. The Bouc-Wen model is able to capture, in an analytical form, a range of shapes of hysteretic cycles which match the behavior of a wide class of nonlinear systems. In order to reduce the seis...