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Integrated optically-inspired wave-based processing is envisioned to outperform digital architectures in specific tasks, such as image processing and speech recognition. In this view, spin-waves represent a promising route due to their…

One of the most fundamental forms of magnon-phonon interaction is an intrinsic property of magnetic materials, the "magnetoelastic coupling". This particular form of interaction has been the basis for describing magnetic materials and their…

Generating non-reciprocal radio frequency transduction plays important roles in a wide range of research and applications, and an aspiration is to integrate this functionality into micro-circuit without introducing magnetic field, which,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Pu Huang , Liang Zhang , Jingwei Zhou , Tian Tian , Peiran Yin , Changkui Duan , Jiangfeng Du

Acoustic waves in a linear time-invariant medium are generally reciprocal; however, reciprocity can break down in a time-variant system. In this Letter, we report on an experimental demonstration of nonreciprocity in a dynamic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yifan Wang , Behrooz Yousefzadeh , Hui Chen , Hussein Nassar , Guoliang Huang , Chiara Daraio

Photonic nonreciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, provide highly desirable functionalities for optical circuitry. This motivates the active investigation of mechanisms that break reciprocity, and pose alternatives to…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-06 Freek Ruesink , Mohammad-Ali Miri , Andrea Alù , Ewold Verhagen

We propose to construct a nonreciprocal single-photon frequency converter via multiple semi-infinite coupled-resonator waveguides (CRWs). We first demonstrate that the frequency of a single photon can be converted nonreciprocally through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Xun-Wei Xu , Ai-Xi Chen , Yong Li , Yu-xi Liu

Realization of non-reciprocal devices, such as isolators and circulators, is of fundamental importance in microwave and photonic communication systems. This can be achieved by breaking time-reversal symmetry in the system or exploiting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Yangbo Xie , Steven A. Cummer

The interaction between magnetic and acoustic excitations have recently inspired many interdisciplinary studies ranging from fundamental physics to circuit implementation. Specifically, the exploration of their coherent interconversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yi Li , Chenbo Zhao , Wei Zhang , Axel Hoffmann , Valentyn Novosad

Nonreciprocal systems breaking time-reversal symmetry are essential tools in modern quantum technologies enabling the suppression of unwanted reflected signals or extraneous noise entering through detection ports. Here we propose a scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Najmeh Eshaqi-Sani , Stefano Zippilli , David Vitali

Nonreciprocity, characterized by direction-dependent signal propagation, is fundamental to technologies such as isolators, signal routing, and precision sensing. This letter theoretically demonstrates nonreciprocal phonon transport and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Divya Mishra , Parvendra Kumar

Non-reciprocal transmission of motion is potentially highly beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from wave guiding, to shock and vibration damping and energy harvesting. To date, large levels of non-reciprocity have been…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Martin Brandenbourger , Xander Locsin , Edan Lerner , Corentin Coulais

This paper addresses the analysis and design of non-reciprocal filters based on time modulated resonators. We analytically show that time modulating a resonator leads to a set of harmonic resonators composed of the unmodulated lumped…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 A. Alvarez-Melcon , X. Wu , J. Zang , X. Liu , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

We propose an all-optical approach to achieve optical nonreciprocity on a chip by quantum squeezing one of two coupled resonator modes. By parametric pumping a nonlinear resonator unidirectionally with a classical coherent field, we squeeze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Lei Tang , Jiangshan Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Franco Nori , Min Xiao , Keyu Xia

We investigate nonreciprocal scattering within the modes of a microwave frequency comb. Adjusting the pump frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of a Josephson parametric oscillator, we control constructive interference for the $m…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Christoph L. Bock , J. C. Rivera Hernández , Fabio Lingua , David B. Haviland

Nonreciprocal transmission of optical or microwave signals is indispensable in various applications involving sensitive measurements. In this paper, we study optomechanically induced directional amplification and isolation in a generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Yan-Ting Lan , Wan-Jun Su , Huaizhi Wu , Yong Li , Shi-Biao Zheng

Nonreciprocal conversion is essential for protecting sources and enabling unidirectional signal routing in photonic, phononic, electronics, and quantum systems, yet conventional implementations rely on magnetic bias that could be…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Arya G. Pour , Jun Ji , Linbo Shao

We analyze the single-photon band structure and the transport of a single photon in a one-dimensional coupled-spinning-resonator chain. The time-reversal symmetry of the resonators chain is broken by the spinning of the resonators, instead…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-17 Jing Li , Ya Yang , Xun Wei Xu , Jing Lu , Hui Jing , Lan Zhou

Non-reciprocal optical components are indispensable in optical applications, and their realization without any magnetic field arose increasing research interests in photonics. Exciting experimental progress has been achieved by either…

Non-reciprocal devices, such as circulators and isolators, are indispensable components in classical and quantum information processing in an integrated photonic circuit. Aside from those applications, the non-reciprocal phase shift is of…

Efficient coupling between on-chip sources and cavities plays a key role in silicon photonics. However, despite the importance of this basic functionality, there are few systematic design tools to simultaneously control coupling between…