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- ItemSound-driven single-electron transfer in a circuit of coupled quantum rails([London] : Nature Publishing Group UK, 2019) Takada, Shintaro; Edlbauer, Hermann; Lepage, Hugo V.; Wang, Junliang; Mortemousque, Pierre-André; Georgiou, Giorgos; Barnes, Crispin H. W.; Ford, Christopher J. B.; Yuan, Mingyun; Santos, Paulo V.; Waintal, Xavier; Ludwig, Arne; Wieck, Andreas D.; Urdampilleta, Matias; Meunier, Tristan; Bäuerle, ChristopherSurface acoustic waves (SAWs) strongly modulate the shallow electric potential in piezoelectric materials. In semiconductor heterostructures such as GaAs/AlGaAs, SAWs can thus be employed to transfer individual electrons between distant quantum dots. This transfer mechanism makes SAW technologies a promising candidate to convey quantum information through a circuit of quantum logic gates. Here we present two essential building blocks of such a SAW-driven quantum circuit. First, we implement a directional coupler allowing to partition a flying electron arbitrarily into two paths of transportation. Second, we demonstrate a triggered single-electron source enabling synchronisation of the SAW-driven sending process. Exceeding a single-shot transfer efficiency of 99%, we show that a SAW-driven integrated circuit is feasible with single electrons on a large scale. Our results pave the way to perform quantum logic operations with flying electron qubits. © 2019, The Author(s).
- ItemCavity electromechanics with parametric mechanical driving([London] : Nature Publishing Group UK, 2020) Bothner, D.; Yanai, S.; Iniguez-Rabago, A.; Yuan, M.; Blanter, Ya. M.; Steele, G. A.Microwave optomechanical circuits have been demonstrated to be powerful tools for both exploring fundamental physics of macroscopic mechanical oscillators, as well as being promising candidates for on-chip quantum-limited microwave devices. In most experiments so far, the mechanical oscillator is either used as a passive element and its displacement is detected using the superconducting cavity, or manipulated by intracavity fields. Here, we explore the possibility to directly and parametrically manipulate the mechanical nanobeam resonator of a cavity electromechanical system, which provides additional functionality to the toolbox of microwave optomechanics. In addition to using the cavity as an interferometer to detect parametrically modulated mechanical displacement and squeezed thermomechanical motion, we demonstrate that this approach can realize a phase-sensitive parametric amplifier for intracavity microwave photons. Future perspectives of optomechanical systems with a parametrically driven mechanical oscillator include exotic bath engineering with negative effective photon temperatures, or systems with enhanced optomechanical nonlinearities.