Nanomechanical resonators: toward atomic scale

B Xu, P Zhang, J Zhu, Z Liu, A Eichler, XQ Zheng… - Acs Nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

Ultrahigh-quality-factor micro-and nanomechanical resonators using dissipation dilution

NJ Engelsen, A Beccari, TJ Kippenberg - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Mechanical resonators are widely used in sensors, transducers and optomechanical
systems, where mechanical dissipation sets the ultimate limit to performance. Over the past …

Nanoelectromechanical systems from two-dimensional materials

PF Ferrari, SP Kim, AM van der Zande - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Micro-and nanoelectromechanical systems have numerous applications in sensing and
signal transduction. Many properties benefit from reducing the system size to the nanoscale …

Nonlinear nanomechanical resonators approaching the quantum ground state

C Samanta, SL De Bonis, CB Møller, R Tormo-Queralt… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
It is an open question whether mechanical resonators can be made nonlinear with vibrations
approaching the quantum ground state. This requires the engineering of a mechanical …

Probing linear to nonlinear damping in 2D semiconductor nanoelectromechanical resonators toward a unified quality factor model

P Zhang, Y Jia, Z Liu, X Zhou, D Xiao, Y Chen, H Jia… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
In resonant nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), the quality (Q) factor is essential for
sensing, communication, and computing applications. While a large vibrational amplitude is …

Diamond integrated quantum nanophotonics: spins, photons and phonons

PK Shandilya, S Flågan, NC Carvalho… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonic devices in diamond have tremendous potential for many quantum
applications, including long-distance quantum communication, quantum information …

Frequency comb from a single driven nonlinear nanomechanical mode

JS Ochs, DKJ Boneß, G Rastelli, M Seitner, W Belzig… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Phononic frequency combs have attracted increasing attention both as a qualitatively new
type of nonlinear phenomena in vibrational systems and from the point of view of …

Superconducting microsphere magnetically levitated in an anharmonic potential with integrated magnetic readout

M Gutierrez Latorre, G Higgins, A Paradkar, T Bauch… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles offer a promising path to quantum
experiments with picogram to microgram objects. In this work, we levitate a 700 ng∼ 10 17 …

Josephson parametric amplifier with Chebyshev gain profile and high saturation

R Kaufman, T White, MI Dykman, A Iorio, G Sterling… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate a Josephson parametric amplifier design with a band-pass impedance-
matching network based on a third-order Chebyshev prototype. We measured eight …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum non-Gaussian optomechanics and electromechanics

AA Rakhubovsky, DW Moore, R Filip - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2024 - Elsevier
Mechanical systems prepared in quantum non-Gaussian states constitute a new advanced
class of phenomena breaking the laws of classical physics. Specifically, such mechanical …