Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Cavity electromechanics with parametric mechanical driving

  • D. Bothner,
  • S. Yanai,
  • A. Iniguez-Rabago,
  • M. Yuan,
  • Ya. M. Blanter,
  • G. A. Steele

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15389-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Microwave circuits are interesting tools for microwave optomechanics and quantum information processing. Here, the authors demonstrate a phase-sensitive microwave amplifier by using parametric frequency modulation of a MHz mechanical nanobeam integrated in a superconducting microwave cavity.