Quantum Infrastructure of Attosecond Sensors and Actuators of Nonequilibrium Physical Media in Smart Materials

Abstract

The advances in new smart materials are linked with attosecond subatomic technologies which can create entangled subatomic electron pairs by attosecond hard ultraviolet and soft X rays in addition to one-electron excitations by femtosecond optical pulses. The quantum infrastructure of nonequilibrium physical media in smart materials is provided by the Fermi and Bose gas of quasi-electron excitations, and the quantum infrastructure of their space-time scales is specified by the quantum mechanisms of two-electron attophysics and one-electron femtochemistry. The primary scale is subatomic (1.0 pm to 0.1 nm), and the next scale is supra-atomic (0.1 to 10.0 nm), being the scale of nanoelectromechanical systems of sensors and actuators that provide self-organization in the space-time hierarchy of nano-, micro-, meso-, and macroscopic dissipative structures of nonequilibrium physical media in smart materials. Here we show that any quantum nanoelectromechanical system can alternately be a sensor and an actuator of dissipative structures with a two-clock cycle: an attosecond sensor of entangled two-electron excitations and a femtosecond actuator of electromechanical motion modes in a nonequilibrium physical medium. For such nanoelectromechanical sensors-actuators, the motion rhythm is three orders of magnitude faster than for femtosecond nanomolecular sensors of one-electron excitations and nanomolecular actuators of vibrationrotation modes in nonequilibrium physical media.