Efficiently controlling phonon propagation is important in many applications, ranging from
the design of thermoelectric materials to thermal budget engineering. Phonon manipulation …

We present a silicon optomechanical nanobeam design with a dynamically tunable acoustic
mode at 10.2 GHz. The resonance frequency can be shifted by 90 kHz/V^ 2 with an on-chip …

Coupled nanomechanical resonators have recently attracted great attention for both
practical applications and fundamental studies owing to their sensitive sympathetic …

Nanomechanics, nanoacoustics, and nanophononics refer to the engineering of acoustic
phonons and elastic waves at the nanoscale and their interactions with other excitations …

Brillouin-based optomechanical systems with high-frequency acoustic modes provide a
promising platform for implementing quantum-information processing and wavelength …

Optomechanical systems show tremendous promise for the high-sensitivity sensing of forces
and modification of mechanical properties via light. For example, similar to neutral atoms …

The concept of Fourier synthesis is heavily used in both consumer electronic products and
fundamental research. In the latter, pulse shaping is key to dynamically initializing, probing …

Cavity electromechanics relies on parametric coupling between microwave and mechanical
modes to manipulate the mechanical quantum state, and provide a coherent interface …

We put forward a deterministic dissipative protocol to prepare phonon Fock states in
nonlinear quantum optomechanical devices. The system is composed of a mechanical …

An enduring challenge in constructing mechanical-oscillator-based hybrid quantum systems
is to ensure engineered coupling to an auxiliary degree of freedom and maintain good …