The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Optical microcavities enhance light–matter interactions and are essential for many
experiments in solid state quantum optics, optomechanics, and nonlinear optics. Single …

Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic
of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a …

Strong confinement, in all dimensions, and high mechanical frequencies are highly
desirable for quantum optomechanical applications. We show that GaAs/AlAs micropillar …

We show how to use the radiation pressure optomechanical coupling between a mechanical
oscillator and an optical cavity field to generate in a heralded way a single quantum of …

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

We analyze the magnitude of the radiation pressure and electrostrictive stresses exerted by
light confined inside GaAs semiconductor WGM optomechanical disk resonators, through …

Single-crystal diamond cavity optomechanical devices are a promising example of a hybrid
quantum system: by coupling mechanical resonances to both light and electron spins, they …

Phonons, the quanta of mechanical vibration, are important to the transport of heat and
sound in solid materials. Recent advances in the fundamental control of phonons …