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Chiral thermal fluctuations and enhanced refrigeration in a nonreciprocal nanomechanical system
Jesse J. Slim, Javier del Pino, Sander A. Mann +1
Understanding how the breaking of reciprocity influences thermal flows and microscopic thermodynamic processes such as refrigeration and energy conversion is of broad current inter…
Strong nanomechanical Duffing nonlinearity and interactions induced through cavity optomechanics
Jesse J. Slim, Ewold Verhagen
Nonlinearity is a key resource in both classical and quantum signal processing. Nonlinear nanomechanical elements have found applications ranging from sensing to computing, while n…
Controlling photothermal forces and backaction in nano-optomechanical resonators through strain engineering
Menno H. Jansen, Cauê M. Kersul, Ewold Verhagen
In micro- and nanoscale optomechanical systems, radiation pressure interactions are often complemented or impeded by photothermal forces arising from thermal strain induced by opti…
Deterministic Mechanical Wigner Negativity via Nonlinear Cavity Quantum Optomechanics in the Unresolved-Sideband Regime
Jack Clarke, Pascal Neveu, Ewold Verhagen +1
Non-Gaussian quantum states of mechanical motion exhibiting Wigner negativity offer promising capabilities for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. Within the fie…
Programmable Synthetic Magnetism and Chiral Edge States in Nano-Optomechanical Quantum Hall Networks
Jesse J. Slim, Javier del Pino, Ewold Verhagen
Artificial magnetic fields break time-reversal symmetry in engineered materials--also known as metamaterials, enabling robust, topological transport of neutral excitations, much li…
Nanocavities for Molecular Optomechanics: their fundamental description and applications
Philippe Roelli, Huatian Hu, Ewold Verhagen +2
Vibrational Raman scattering -- a process where light exchanges energy with a molecular vibration through inelastic scattering -- is most fundamentally described in a quantum frame…
Strain coupling of a single exciton to a nano-optomechanical resonator
Matteo Lodde, René P. J. van Veldhoven, Ewold Verhagen +1
We demonstrate coupling of a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) to an optomechanical cavity, mediated by the strain of a nano-mechanical mode. The device comprises an optomechanical ph…
A single-phonon directional coupler
Amirparsa Zivari, Niccolò Fiaschi, Lorenzo Scarpelli +4
Integrated photonics has revolutionized fields such as telecommunications, quantum optics, and metrology by enabling compact, scalable circuits through highly confined optical mode…
Optomechanical realization of the bosonic Kitaev-Majorana chain
Jesse J. Slim, Clara C. Wanjura, Matteo Brunelli +3
The fermionic Kitaev chain is a canonical model featuring topological Majorana zero modes. We report the experimental realization of its bosonic analogue in a nano-optomechanical n…
Hybrid cavity-antenna architecture for strong and tunable sideband-selective molecular Raman scattering enhancement
Ilan Shlesinger, Jente Vandersmissen, Eitan Oksenberg +2
Plasmon resonances at the surface of plasmonic antennas allow for extremely strong enhancement of Raman scattering. Intrinsic to plasmonics, however, is that extreme field confinem…
Observation of Landau levels and topological edge states in photonic crystals through pseudomagnetic fields induced by synthetic strain
René Barczyk, L. Kuipers, Ewold Verhagen
The control over light propagation and localization in photonic crystals offers wide applications from sensing and on-chip routing to lasing and quantum light-matter interfaces. Wh…
Quadrature-averaged homodyne detection for cavity parameter estimation
Giada R. La Gala, Arvind S. Kumar, Rick Leijssen +2
Balanced homodyne interferometry is a well-known detection technique that allows for sensitive characterization of light fields. Conventionally a homodyne interferometer is operate…
Enhanced nonlinear optomechanics in a coupled-mode photonic crystal device
Roel Burgwal, Ewold Verhagen
The nonlinear component of the optomechanical interaction between light and mechanical vibration promises many exciting classical and quantum mechanical applications, but is genera…
Cavity quantum optomechanical nonlinearities and position measurement beyond the breakdown of the linearized approximation
Jack Clarke, Pascal Neveu, Kiran E. Khosla +2
Several optomechanics experiments are now entering the highly sought nonlinear regime where optomechanical interactions are large even for low light levels. Within this regime, new…
Quadrature nonreciprocity: unidirectional bosonic transmission without breaking time-reversal symmetry
Clara C. Wanjura, Jesse J. Slim, Javier del Pino +3
Nonreciprocity means that the transmission of a signal depends on its direction of propagation. Despite vastly different platforms and underlying working principles, the realisatio…
On-chip distribution of quantum information using traveling phonons
Amirparsa Zivari, Niccolò Fiaschi, Roel Burgwal +3
Distributing quantum entanglement on a chip is a crucial step towards realizing scalable quantum processors. Using traveling phonons - quantized guided mechanical wavepackets - as…
Nanomechanical Design Strategy for Single-Mode Optomechanical Measurement
Giada La Gala, John P. Mathew, Pascal Neveu +1
The motion of a mechanical resonator is intrinsically decomposed over a collection of normal modes of vibration. When the resonator is used as a sensor, its multimode nature often…
Interplay of leakage radiation and protection in topological photonic crystal cavities
René Barczyk, Nikhil Parappurath, Sonakshi Arora +3
The introduction of topological concepts to the design of photonic crystal cavities holds great promise for applications in integrated photonics due to the prospect of topological…
Breakdown of spin-to-helicity locking at the nanoscale in topological photonic crystal edge states
Sonakshi Arora, Thomas Bauer, Nikhil Parappurath +3
We measure the local near-field spin in topological edge state waveguides that emulate the quantum spin Hall effect. We reveal a highly structured spin density distribution that is…
Non-Hermitian chiral phononics through optomechanically-induced squeezing
Javier del Pino, Jesse J. Slim, Ewold Verhagen
Imposing chirality on a physical system engenders unconventional energy flow and responses, such as the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the topological quantum Hall phase for electrons in…
Continuous-Wave Frequency Upconversion with a Molecular Optomechanical Nanocavity
Wen Chen, Philippe Roelli, Huatian Hu +8
Frequency upconversion is a cornerstone of electromagnetic signal processing, analysis and detection. It is used to transfer energy and information from one frequency domain to ano…
Integrated molecular optomechanics with hybrid dielectric-metallic resonators
Ilan Shlesinger, Kévin G. Cognée, Ewold Verhagen +1
Molecular optomechanics stems from the description of Raman scattering in the presence of an optical resonator using a cavity optomechanics formalism. We extend the molecular optom…
Calibration-based overlay sensing with minimal-footprint targets
Tom A. W. Wolterink, Robin D. Buijs, Giampiero Gerini +2
Overlay measurements are a critical part of modern semiconductor fabrication, but overlay targets have not scaled down in the way devices have. In this work, we produce overlay tar…
Floquet phonon lasing in multimode optomechanical systems
Laura Mercadé, Karl Pelka, Roel Burgwal +3
Dynamical radiation pressure effects in cavity optomechanical systems give rise to self-sustained oscillations or `phonon lasing' behavior, producing stable oscillators up to GHz f…