Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Perspective on traveling wave microwave parametric amplifiers

M Esposito, A Ranadive, L Planat, N Roch - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum-limited microwave parametric amplifiers are genuine key pillars for rising quantum
technologies and, in general, for applications that rely on the successful readout of weak …

Collision-induced broadband optical nonreciprocity

C Liang, B Liu, AN Xu, X Wen, C Lu, K Xia, MK Tey… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical nonreciprocity is an essential property for a wide range of applications, such as
building nonreciprocal optical devices that include isolators and circulators. The realization …

Josephson parametric circulator with same-frequency signal ports, 200 MHz bandwidth, and high dynamic range

R Kwende, T White, O Naaman - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a 3-port Josephson parametric circulator matched to 50 Ω using second
order Chebyshev networks. The device notably operates with two of its signal ports at the …

Microwave quantum diode

R Upadhyay, DS Golubev, YC Chang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The fragile nature of quantum circuits is a major bottleneck to scalable quantum
applications. Operating at cryogenic temperatures, quantum circuits are highly vulnerable to …

Dark‐State Induced Quantum Nonreciprocity

N Nefedkin, M Cotrufo, A Krasnok… - Advanced Quantum …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of quantum technologies and their broad applications, the
phenomenon of reciprocity breaking has been evolving from an effective tool in classical …

Active protection of a superconducting qubit with an interferometric Josephson isolator

B Abdo, NT Bronn, O Jinka, S Olivadese… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Nonreciprocal microwave devices play critical roles in high-fidelity, quantum-nondemolition
(QND) measurement schemes. They impose unidirectional routing of readout signals and …

Wideband Josephson parametric isolator

MA Beck, M Selvanayagam, A Carniol, S Cairns… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
The cryogenic hardware required to build a superconducting-qubit-based quantum
computer demands a variety of microwave components. These elements include microwave …

High-efficiency measurement of an artificial atom embedded in a parametric amplifier

A Eddins, JM Kreikebaum, DM Toyli… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
A crucial limit to measurement efficiencies of superconducting circuits comes from losses
involved when coupling to an external quantum amplifier. Here, we realize a device …

Design of an on-chip superconducting microwave circulator with octave bandwidth

BJ Chapman, EI Rosenthal, KW Lehnert - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
We present a design for a superconducting, on-chip circulator composed of dynamically
modulated transfer switches and delays. Design goals are set for the multiplexed readout of …