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

Integrated photonics based on silicon has drawn a lot of interests, since it is able to provide
compact solution for functional devices, and its fabrication process is compatible with the …

A new class of hybrid systems that couple optical, electrical and mechanical degrees of
freedom in nanoscale devices is under development in laboratories worldwide. These nano …

Quantum information technology based on solid state qubits has created much interest in
converting quantum states from the microwave to the optical domain. Optical photons, unlike …

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

Hybrid quantum systems are essential for the realization of distributed quantum networks. In
particular, piezo-mechanics operating at typical superconducting qubit frequencies features …

The interaction between light and mesoscopic mechanical degrees of freedom has been
investigated under various perspectives, from spectroscopy in condensed matter, optical …

Quantum state transfer between microwave and optical frequencies is essential for
connecting superconducting quantum circuits to optical systems and extending microwave …

We investigate cat codes that can correct multiple excitation losses and identify two types of
logical errors: bit-flip errors due to excessive excitation loss and dephasing errors due to …

In the development of microwave-to-optical (MO) quantum transducers, suppressing added
noise induced by the optical excitation remains a major challenge. Here we report an …