Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

[HTML][HTML] Effective quality factor tuning mechanisms in micromechanical resonators

JML Miller, A Ansari, DB Heinz, Y Chen… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Quality factor (Q) is an important property of micro-and nano-electromechanical (MEM/NEM)
resonators that underlie timing references, frequency sources, atomic force microscopes …

Remote quantum entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators

R Riedinger, A Wallucks, I Marinković, C Löschnauer… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Entanglement, an essential feature of quantum theory that allows for inseparable quantum
correlations to be shared between distant parties, is a crucial resource for quantum …

Efficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency

W Jiang, CJ Sarabalis, YD Dahmani, RN Patel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and
optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with …

Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry of single phonons from an optomechanical resonator

S Hong, R Riedinger, I Marinković, A Wallucks… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Nano-and micromechanical solid-state quantum devices have become a focus of attention.
Reliably generating nonclassical states of their motion is of interest both for addressing …

Optomechanical bell test

I Marinković, A Wallucks, R Riedinger, S Hong… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Over the past few decades, experimental tests of Bell-type inequalities have been at the
forefront of understanding quantum mechanics and its implications. These strong bounds on …

Lithium niobate piezo-optomechanical crystals

W Jiang, RN Patel, FM Mayor, TP McKenna… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an
outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in …

Single-photon-induced phonon blockade in a hybrid spin-optomechanical system

LL Zheng, TS Yin, Q Bin, XY Lü, Y Wu - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We explore the photon-controlled phonon statistics in a hybrid spin-optomechanical system.
Here the proposed phonon blockade is based on the nonlinearity of system induced by the …

Phononic Band Structure Engineering for High-Q Gigahertz Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators on Lithium Niobate

L Shao, S Maity, L Zheng, L Wu, A Shams-Ansari… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Phonons at gigahertz frequencies interact with electrons, photons, and atomic systems in
solids, and therefore, have extensive applications in signal processing, sensing, and …

[HTML][HTML] Loss channels affecting lithium niobate phononic crystal resonators at cryogenic temperature

EA Wollack, AY Cleland, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the performance of microwave-frequency phononic crystal resonators
fabricated on thin-film lithium niobate for integration with superconducting quantum circuits …