Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator

EE Wollman, CU Lei, AJ Weinstein, J Suh, A Kronwald… - Science, 2015 - science.org
According to quantum mechanics, a harmonic oscillator can never be completely at rest.
Even in the ground state, its position will always have fluctuations, called the zero-point …

[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 …

Squeezing of quantum noise of motion in a micromechanical resonator

JM Pirkkalainen, E Damskägg, M Brandt, F Massel… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
A pair of conjugate observables, such as the quadrature amplitudes of harmonic motion,
have fundamental fluctuations that are bound by the Heisenberg uncertainty relation …

Quantum nondemolition measurement of a nonclassical state of a massive object

F Lecocq, JB Clark, RW Simmonds, J Aumentado… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
By coupling a macroscopic mechanical oscillator to two microwave cavities, we
simultaneously prepare and monitor a nonclassical steady state of mechanical motion. In …

Quantum harmonic oscillator state synthesis by reservoir engineering

D Kienzler, HY Lo, B Keitch, L De Clercq, F Leupold… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The robust generation of quantum states in the presence of decoherence is a primary
challenge for explorations of quantum mechanics at larger scales. Using the mechanical …

Enhancing spin-phonon and spin-spin interactions using linear resources in a hybrid quantum system

PB Li, Y Zhou, WB Gao, F Nori - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Hybrid spin-mechanical setups offer a versatile platform for quantum science and
technology, but improving the spin-phonon as well as the spin-spin couplings of such …

Two-mode squeezed states in cavity optomechanics via engineering of a single reservoir

MJ Woolley, AA Clerk - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We study theoretically a three-mode optomechanical system where two mechanical
oscillators are independently coupled to a single cavity mode. By optimized two-tone or four …

Heisenberg-limited Hamiltonian learning for interacting bosons

H Li, Y Tong, T Gefen, H Ni, L Ying - npj Quantum Information, 2024 - nature.com
We develop a protocol for learning a class of interacting bosonic Hamiltonians from
dynamics with Heisenberg-limited scaling. For Hamiltonians with an underlying bounded …

Generation and transfer of squeezed states in a cavity magnomechanical system by two-tone microwave fields

W Zhang, DY Wang, CH Bai, T Wang, S Zhang… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose a scheme to generate squeezed states of magnon and phonon modes and
verify squeezing transfer between different modes of distinct frequencies in a cavity …