Communications Physics (Dec 2020)

Sideband-resolved resonator electromechanics based on a nonlinear Josephson inductance probed on the single-photon level

  • Philip Schmidt,
  • Mohammad T. Amawi,
  • Stefan Pogorzalek,
  • Frank Deppe,
  • Achim Marx,
  • Rudolf Gross,
  • Hans Huebl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-00501-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Recently, inductively-coupled optomechanical systems have been realized. They represent an important step forward towards achieving strong light-matter interaction, offer extreme sensitivity to mechanical displacement, and allow to study quantum phenomena on a single quantum level. In this work, a superconducting device is inductively coupled to a microwave resonator forming an electromechanical system operating at the single-photon level.