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Multistability is a common phenomenon in nonlinear dynamical systems. It can also arise in nanoscale systems. This review paper presents three such systems exhibiting multistability: an electrically driven nanowire, a semiconductor superlattice, and a coupled system of ferromagnet and topological insulator. Potential applications are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This Review is based on Refs. [9, 11, 15, 81]. I thank my former and current students Dr. Q.-F. Chen, Dr. L Huang, Dr. X. Ni, Dr. L. Ying, Mr. G.-L. Wang, and Mr. H.-Y. Xu who contributed to different aspects of the topics discussed here. The efforts were supported by ONR under Grant No. N00014-15-1-2405 and by AFOSR under Grant No. FA9550-15-1-0151.

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Lai, YC. (2017). Multistability in Nanosystems. In: In, V., Longhini, P., Palacios, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applications in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND 2016). ICAND 2016. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52621-8_5

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