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The interaction between distinct excitations in solids is of both fundamental interest and technological importance. One example of such interactions is coupling between an exciton, a Coulomb bound electron-hole pair, and a magnon, a…

Microwave-to-optical conversion via ferromagnetic magnons has so-far been limited by the optical coupling rates achieved in mm-scale whispering gallery mode resonators. Towards overcoming this limitation, we propose and demonstrate an open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 J. A. Haigh , R. A. Chakalov , A. J. Ramsay

Coherent coupling between spin wave excitations (magnons) and microwave photons in a cavity may disclose new paths to unconventional phenomena as well as for novel applications. Here, we present a systematic investigation on YIG (Yttrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Alberto Ghirri , Claudio Bonizzoni , Maksut Maksutoglu , Alberto Mercurio , Omar Di Stefano , Salvatore Savasta , Marco Affronte

Evidence of non-hermitian behavior has been recently demonstrated in cavity magnonics, including the emergence of mode level attraction and exceptional points in spectroscopic measurements. This work demonstrates experimental evidence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Alban Joseph , Mawgan A. Smith , Martin P. Weides , Rair Macêdo

Hybrid quantum systems in which acoustic resonators couple to superconducting qubits are promising quantum information platforms. High quality factors and small mode volumes make acoustic modes ideal quantum memories, while the qubit-phonon…

Ultrahigh nonreciprocal transmission has been achieved in a cavity-magnon system, which consists of two whispering gallery modes (WGMs) and a single magnon mode within a magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet sphere. The nonreciprocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Zhe-Qi Yang , Si-Qi Lin , Zhi-Rong Zhong

Quantum memories are regarded as one of the fundamental building blocks of linear-optical quantum computation and long-distance quantum communication. A long standing goal to realize scalable quantum information processing is to build a…

A stable and high-quality single-magnon state is desired by the single-magnon source for quantum information application with a macroscopic spin system. We consider a hybrid system where a magnon mode is directly coupled to a nonresonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Zhu-yao Jin , Jun Jing

The cavity-mediated coupling between magnons in an yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) sphere and a superconducting qubit has recently been demonstrated as a new platform for preparing macroscopic quantum states. Here, based on this system, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Rong-Can Yang , Gang Liu , Gen Li , Jie Li

Strong coupling between distinct quasiparticles in condensed matter systems gives rise to hybrid states with emergent properties. We demonstrate the hybridization of confined phonons and finite-wavelength magnons, forming a magnon-polaron…

Low energy consumption enabled by charge-free information transport, which is free from ohmic heating, and the ability to process phase-encoded data by nanometer-sized interference devices at GHz and THz frequencies are just a few benefits…

Coherent conversion of photons to magnons, and back, provides a natural mechanism for rapid control of interactions between stationary spins with long coherence times and high-speed photons. Despite the large frequency difference between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tianyu Liu , Xufeng Zhang , H. X. Tang , M. E. Flatté

Microwave-optical entanglement is essential for efficient quantum communication, secure information transfer, and integrating microwave and optical quantum systems to advance hybrid quantum technologies. In this work, we demonstrate how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Ming-Yue Liu , Yuan Gong , Jiaojiao Chen , Yan-Wei Wang , Wei Xiong

Scattering of light dark matter with sub-eV energy deposition can be detected with collective excitations in condensed matter systems. When dark matter has spin-independent couplings to atoms or ions, it has been shown to efficiently excite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-27 Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

We present a scheme to entangle two magnon modes in a cavity magnomechanical system. The two magnon modes are embodied by collective motions of a large number of spins in two macroscopic ferrimagnets, and couple to a single microwave cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Jie Li , Shi-Yao Zhu

Quantum entanglement, a key element for quantum information is generated with a cavity-magnomechanical system. It comprises of two microwave cavities, a magnon mode and a vibrational mode, and the last two elements come from a YIG sphere…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Zhi-Bo Yang , Jin-Song Liu , Ai-Dong Zhu , Hong-Yu Liu , Rong-Can Yang

Squeezed states, crucial for quantum metrology and emerging quantum technologies, have been demonstrated in various platforms, but quantum squeezing of magnons in macroscopic spin systems remains elusive. Here we report the experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Yuan-Chao Weng , Da Xu , Zhen Chen , Li-Zhou Tan , Xu-Ke Gu , Jie Li , Hai-Feng Yu , Shi-Yao Zhu , Xuedong Hu , Franco Nori , J. Q. You

We demonstrate the electrical detection of magnon-magnon hybrid dynamics in yttrium iron garnet/permalloy (YIG/Py) thin film bilayer devices. Direct microwave current injection through the conductive Py layer excites the hybrid dynamics…

Ground-state cooling is essential for accessing the quantum regime and enabling quantum control of macroscopic systems. However, achieving optomechanical cooling in the unresolved-sideband regime ($\omega_b < \kappa$) remains challenging.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Xiao-Hong Fan , Qin-Geng Chen , Jiaojiao Chen , Wei Xiong

Multiple-post reentrant 3D lumped cavity modes have been realized to design the concept of discrete Whispering Gallery and Fabry-Perot-like Modes for multimode microwave Quantum Electrodynamics experiments. Using a magnon spin-wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Nikita Kostylev , Maxim Goryachev , Michael E. Tobar