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Ferrite-free circulators that are passive and readily integratable on a chip are highly sought-after in quantum technologies based on superconducting circuits. In our previous work, we implemented such a circulator using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 N. Pradeep Kumar , Dat Thanh Le , Prasanna Pakkiam , Thomas M. Stace , Arkady Fedorov

Non-reciprocal devices, which allow the non-reciprocal signal routing, serve as the fundamental elements in photonic and microwave circuits and are crucial in both classical and quantum information processing. The radiation-pressure-induced…

Nonreciprocal devices, such as isolator or circulator, are crucial for information routing and processing in quantum networks. Traditional nonreciprocal devices, which rely on the application of bias magnetic fields to break time-reversal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yue Cai , Jie Liu , Kang-Jie Ma , Lei Tan

The ability to engineer nonreciprocal interactions is an essential tool in modern communication technology as well as a powerful resource for building quantum networks. Aside from large reverse isolation, a nonreciprocal device suitable for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 G. A. Peterson , F. Lecocq , K. Cicak , R. W. Simmonds , J. Aumentado , J. D. Teufel

Nonreciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators are necessary to protect sensitive apparatus from unwanted noise. Recently, a variety of alternatives were proposed to replace ferrite-based commercial technologies, with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 N. R. Bernier , L. D. Tóth , A. K. Feofanov , T. J. Kippenberg

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

Microelectromechanical systems and integrated photonics provide the basis for many reliable and compact circuit elements in modern communication systems. Electro-opto-mechanical devices are currently one of the leading approaches to realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 J. M. Fink , M. Kalaee , R. Norte , A. Pitanti , O. Painter

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 describe a new approach for on-chip optical non-reciprocity which makes use of strong optomechanical interaction in microring resonators. By optically pumping the ring resonator in one direction, the optomechanical coupling is only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Mohammad Hafezi , Peter Rabl

Recently, nonreciprocal phase shifters have attracted a surge of interest thanks to the advent of nonreciprocal electromagnetic systems, such as nonreciprocal metasurfaces, nonreciprocal-beam antennas, and invisibility cloaks. To overcome…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Achieving non-reciprocity and building nonreciprocal components through spatio-temporal modulation of material properties has attracted a lot of attention in the recent past as an alternative to the more traditional approach of exploiting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Negar Reiskarimian , Aravind Nagulu , Tolga Dinc , Harish Krishnaswamy

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…

This paper reports the first demonstration of a magnet-free, high performance microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based circulator. An innovative circuit based on the commutation of MEMS resonators with high quality (Q) factor using RF…

Integrated plasmonics is advancing rapidly, enabling a wide range of functionalities to be incorporated onto a single chip. Applications span information processing, computation, quantum sensing, and dark-matter detection. This progress has…

Non-reciprocal devices, which have different transmission coefficients for propagating waves in opposite directions, are crucial components in many low noise quantum measurements. In most schemes, magneto-optical effects provide the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-18 Baleegh Abdo , Katrina Sliwa , Luigi Frunzio , Michel Devoret

We propose to couple the flux degree of freedom of one mode with the charge degree of freedom of a second mode in a hybrid superconducting-semiconducting architecture. Nonreciprocity can arise in this architecture in the presence of…

We describe a dispersive nanoSQUID magnetometer comprised of two variable thickness aluminum weak-link Josephson junctions shunted in parallel with an on-chip capacitor. This arrangement forms a nonlinear oscillator with a tunable 4-8 GHz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 E. M. Levenson-Falk , R. Vijay , N. Antler , I. Siddiqi

In this paper, a new generation of magnet-free circulators with high performance is proposed. Circulators are crucial devices in modern communication systems due to their ability to enable full-duplexing and double the spectral efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Yao Yu , Giuseppe Michetti , Michele Pirro , Ahmed Kord , Dimitrios Sounas , Zhicheng Xiao , Cristian Cassella , Andrea Alu , Matteo Rinaldi

Transport is called nonreciprocal when not only the sign, but also the absolute value of the current, depends on the polarity of the applied voltage. It requires simultaneously broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, e.g., by the…

Non-reciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, are critical to wireless communication and radar applications. Traditionally, non-reciprocal components have been implemented using ferrite materials, which exhibit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-20 Aravind Nagulu , Tolga Dinc , Zhicheng Xiao , Mykhailo Tymchenko , Dimitrios Sounas , Andrea Alù , Harish Krishnaswamy