Quantum electromechanical systems

M Blencowe - Physics Reports, 2004 - Elsevier
Quantum electromechanical systems are nano-to-micrometer (micron) scale mechanical
resonators coupled to electronic devices of comparable dimensions, such that the …

Towards quantum superpositions of a mirror

W Marshall, C Simon, R Penrose, D Bouwmeester - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
We propose an experiment for creating quantum superposition states involving of the order
of 10 14 atoms via the interaction of a single photon with a tiny mirror. This mirror, mounted …

Entanglement and decoherence of a micromechanical resonator via coupling to a Cooper-pair box

AD Armour, MP Blencowe, KC Schwab - Physical Review Letters, 2002 - APS
We analyze the quantum dynamics of a micromechanical resonator capacitively coupled to
a Cooper-pair box. With appropriate quantum state control of the Cooper box, the resonator …

Classical dynamics of a nanomechanical resonator coupled to a single-electron transistor

AD Armour, MP Blencowe, Y Zhang - Physical Review B, 2004 - APS
We analyze the dynamics of a nanomechanical resonator coupled to a single-electron
transistor (SET) in the regime where the resonator behaves classically. A master equation is …

Temperature dependence of polaronic transport through single molecules and quantum dots

U Lundin, RH McKenzie - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
Motivated by recent experiments on electric transport through single molecules and
quantum dots, we investigate a model for transport that allows for significant coupling …

Generic entanglement generation, quantum statistics, and complementarity

S Bose, D Home - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
A general and an arbitrarily efficient scheme for entangling the spins (or any spinlike degree
of freedom) of two independent uncorrelated identical particles by a combination of two …

Nanomechanical displacement sensing using a quantum point contact

AN Cleland, JS Aldridge, DC Driscoll… - Applied Physics …, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
We describe a radio frequency mechanical resonator that includes a quantum point contact,
defined using electrostatic top gates. We can mechanically actuate the resonator using …

Controllable coupling between flux qubit and nanomechanical resonator by magnetic field

F Xue, YD Wang, CP Sun, H Okamoto… - New Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose an active mechanism for coupling the quantized mode of a nanomechanical
resonator to the persistent current in the loop of a superconducting Josephson junction (or …

Activating remote entanglement in a quantum network by local counting of identical particles

A Castellini, B Bellomo, G Compagno, R Lo Franco - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Quantum information and communication processing within quantum networks usually
employ identical particles. Despite this, the physical role of the quantum statistical nature of …

Single molecular shuttle-junction: Shot noise and decoherence

W Lai, C Zhang, Z Ma - Frontiers of Physics, 2015 - Springer
Single molecular shuttle-junction is one kind of nanoscale electromechanical tunneling
system. In this junction, a molecular island oscillates depending on its charge occupation …