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State transfer between light and microwaves is a key challenge in quantum networks. Promising transducers use a mechanical intermediary that couples to both fields via radiation pressure. Such electro-optomechanical devices have achieved…

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Light-sound interactions have long been exploited in various acousto-optic devices based on bulk crystalline materials. Conventionally these devices operate in megahertz frequency range where the acoustic wavelength is much longer than the…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-06 Semere Ayalew Tadesse , Mo Li

We present a brief overview of the transport of quantum light across a one-dimensional waveguide which is integrated with a periodic string of quantum-scale dipoles. We demonstrate a scheme to implement transparency by suitably tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Girish S. Agarwal , Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay

A quantum transducer converts an input signal to an output probe at a distant frequency band while maintaining the quantum information with high fidelity, which is crucial for quantum networking and distributed quantum sensing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

In recent years, the field of microwave optomechanics has emerged as leading platform for achieving quantum control of macroscopic mechanical objects. Implementations of microwave optomechanics to date have coupled microwave photons to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 I. C. Rodrigues , D. Bothner , G. A. Steele

We introduce a circuit quantum electrodynamical setup for a "single-photon" transistor. In our approach photons propagate in two open transmission lines that are coupled via two interacting transmon qubits. The interaction is such that no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 Lukas Neumeier , Martin Leib , Michael J. Hartmann

Single photon detectors are key for time-correlated photon counting applications [1] and enable a host of emerging optical quantum information technologies [2]. So far, the leading approach for continuous and efficient single-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Waqar Khan , Patrick P. Potts , Sebastian Lehmann , Claes Thelander , Kimberly A. Dick , Peter Samuelsson , Ville F. Maisi

We propose a microwave frequency single photon transistor which can operate under continuous wave probing, and represents an efficient single microwave photon detector. It can be realized using an impedance matched system of a three level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Oleksandr Kyriienko , Anders S. Sørensen

Quantum communication between remote chips is essential for realizing large-scale superconducting quantum computers. For such communication, itinerant microwave photons propagating through transmission lines offer a promising approach.…

We propose a device architecture capable of direct quantum electro-optical conversion of microwave to optical photons. The hybrid system consists of a planar superconducting microwave circuit coupled to an integrated whispering-gallery-mode…

With the rapid development of microwave photonics, which has expanded to numerous applications of commercial importance, eliminating the emerging bottlenecks becomes of vital importance. For example, as the main branch of microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Yaqing Jin , Ye Yang , Huibo Hong , Xiao Xiang , Runai Quan , Tao Liu , Shougang Zhang , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li , Ruifang Dong

We present measurements of a hybrid system consisting of a microwave transmission-line resonator and a lateral quantum dot defined on a GaAs heterostructure. The two subsystems are separately characterized and their interaction is studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-30 T. Frey , P. J. Leek , M. Beck , K. Ensslin , A. Wallraff , T. Ihn

Photon emission is the hallmark of light-matter interaction and the foundation of photonic quantum science, enabling advanced sources for quantum communication and computing. Although single-emitter radiation can be tailored by the photonic…

The strong-coupling regime of cavity-quantum-electrodynamics (cQED) represents light-matter interaction at the fully quantum level. Adding a single photon shifts the resonance frequencies, a profound nonlinearity. cQED is a test-bed of…

Strong coupling enables a diverse set of applications that include optical memories, non-magnetic isolators, photonic state manipulation, and signal processing. To date, strong coupling in integrated platforms has been realized using…

Entanglement across distant frequency bands is a crucial resource in quantum networking. However, directly entangling crossband photons, e.g., microwave and optical, is challenging. Furthermore, distributing crossband entanglement via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

The long-range transmission of quantum information relies on multiple interfaces between photons, acting as flying qubits, and localized memories, serving as repeaters, to mitigate transmission losses. Efficient, long-range transmission…

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Coupling carbon nanotube devices to microwave circuits offers a significant increase in bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio. These facilitate fast non-invasive readouts important for quantum information processing, shot noise and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. Ranjan , G. Puebla-Hellmann , M. Jung , T. Hasler , A. Nunnenkamp , M. Muoth , C. Hierold , A. Wallraff , C. Schönenberger

Linking classical microwave electrical circuits to the optical telecommunication band is at the core of modern communication. Future quantum information networks will require coherent microwave-to-optical conversion to link electronic…

Efficient, low-noise, and high-bandwidth transduction between optical and microwave photons is key to long-range quantum communication between distant superconducting quantum processors. Recent demonstrations of microwave-optical…