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 …

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

Imposing chirality on a physical system engenders unconventional energy flow and
responses, such as the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the topological quantum Hall phase for …

Although the interaction between light and motion in cavity optomechanical systems is
inherently nonlinear, experimental demonstrations to date have allowed a linearized …

Optical read-out of motion is widely used in sensing applications. Recent developments in
micro-and nano-optomechanical systems have given rise to on-chip mechanical sensing …

Gauge fields in condensed matter physics give rise to nonreciprocal and topological
transport phenomena and exotic electronic states. Nanomechanical systems are applied as …

Optical isolation, nonreciprocal phase transmission, and topological phases for light based
on synthetic gauge fields have been raising significant interest in the recent literature. Cavity …

In recent years, there has been growing interest in optical sensors based on microcavities
due to their advantages of size reduction and enhanced sensing capability. In this paper, we …

A new class of hybrid systems that couple optical and mechanical nanoscale devices is
under development. According to their interaction concepts, two groups of opto-mechanical …

The ability to detect nanoscale objects is particular crucial for a wide range of applications,
such as environmental protection, early-stage disease diagnosis and drug discovery …