The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and
dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and …

The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between
electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review …

By exploiting recent developments associated with coupled microcavities, we introduce the
concept of the PT-symmetric phonon laser with balanced gain and loss. This is …

The past few years have witnessed the concrete and fast spreading of quantum
technologies for practical computation and simulation. In particular, quantum computing …

Although strong nonlinear interactions between quantized excitations are an important
resource for quantum technologies based on bosonic oscillator modes, most …

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 …

The Bloch sphere is a generic picture describing the coherent dynamics of coupled classical
or quantum-mechanical two-level systems under the control of electromagnetic fields,. It is …

Graphene is an attractive material for nanomechanical devices because it allows for
exceptional properties, such as high frequencies, quality factors, and low mass. An …

Carbon nanotubes, quintessentially one-dimensional quantum objects, possess a variety of
electrical, optical, and mechanical properties that are suited for develo** devices that …

Mechanical oscillators have been demonstrated with very high quality factors over a wide
range of frequencies. They also couple to a wide variety of fields and forces, making them …