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20182025
most citedResolving the energy levels of a nanomechanical oscillator

184 citations · 743 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Surface and Bulk Two-Level System Losses in Lithium Niobate Acoustic Resonators

Rachel G. Gruenke-Freudenstein, Erik Szakiel, Gitanjali P. Multani +7

Lithium niobate (LN) is a promising material for building acoustic resonators used in quantum applications, but its performance is limited by poorly understood material defects cal…

quant-ph2024★ 100 cited

Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor T. Hann +118

In order to solve problems of practical importance, quantum computers will likely need to incorporate quantum error correction, where a logical qubit is redundantly encoded in many…

physics.optics2023

Arbitrary electro-optic bandwidth and frequency control in lithium niobate optical resonators

Jason F. Herrmann, Devin J. Dean, Christopher J. Sarabalis +6

In situ tunable photonic filters and memories are important for emerging quantum and classical optics technologies. However, most photonic devices have fixed resonances and bandwid…

quant-ph2023★ 61 cited

Demonstrating a long-coherence dual-rail erasure qubit using tunable transmons

Harry Levine, Arbel Haim, Jimmy S. C. Hung +110

Quantum error correction with erasure qubits promises significant advantages over standard error correction due to favorable thresholds for erasure errors. To realize this advantag…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Surface Modification and Coherence in Lithium Niobate SAW Resonators

Rachel G. Gruenke, Oliver A. Hitchcock, E. Alex Wollack +5

Lithium niobate is a promising material for developing quantum acoustic technologies due to its strong piezoelectric effect and availability in the form of crystalline thin films o…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Strong dispersive coupling between a mechanical resonator and a fluxonium superconducting qubit

Nathan R. A. Lee, Yudan Guo, Agnetta Y. Cleland +10

We demonstrate strong dispersive coupling between a fluxonium superconducting qubit and a 690 megahertz mechanical oscillator, extending the reach of circuit quantum acousto-dynami…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Studying phonon coherence with a quantum sensor

Agnetta Y. Cleland, E. Alex Wollack, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

In the field of quantum technology, nanomechanical oscillators offer a host of useful properties given their compact size, long lifetimes, and ability to detect force and motion. T…

quant-ph2021★ 137 cited

Quantum state preparation, tomography, and entanglement of mechanical oscillators

E. Alex Wollack, Agnetta Y. Cleland, Rachel G. Gruenke +3

Precisely engineered mechanical oscillators keep time, filter signals, and sense motion, making them an indispensable part of today's technological landscape. These unique capabili…

physics.app-ph2020★ 43 cited

Loss channels affecting lithium niobate phononic crystal resonators at cryogenic temperature

E. Alex Wollack, Agnetta Y. Cleland, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +6

We investigate the performance of microwave-frequency phononic crystal resonators fabricated on thin-film lithium niobate for integration with superconducting quantum circuits. For…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply-resonant lithium niobate on sapphire transducer

Timothy P. McKenna, Jeremy D. Witmer, Rishi N. Patel +6

Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors over kilomet…

quant-ph2019

A silicon-organic hybrid platform for quantum microwave-to-optical transduction

Jeremy D. Witmer, Timothy P. McKenna, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +6

Low-loss fiber optic links have the potential to connect superconducting quantum processors together over long distances to form large scale quantum networks. A key component of th…

quant-ph2019★ 21 cited

Electric fields for light: Propagation of microwave photons along a synthetic dimension

Nathan R. A. Lee, Marek Pechal, E. Alex Wollack +3

The evenly-spaced modes of an electromagnetic resonator are coupled to each other by appropriate time-modulation, leading to dynamics analogous to those of particles hopping betwee…

quant-ph2019★ 13 cited

Mechanical Purcell Filters for Microwave Quantum Machines

Agnetta Y. Cleland, Marek Pechal, Pieter-Jan C. Stas +2

In circuit quantum electrodynamics, measuring the state of a superconducting qubit introduces a loss channel which can enhance spontaneous emission through the Purcell effect, thus…

quant-ph2019★ 184 cited

Resolving the energy levels of a nanomechanical oscillator

Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, E. Alex Wollack, Zhaoyou Wang +5

The coherent states that describe the classical motion of a mechanical oscillator do not have well-defined energy, but are rather quantum superpositions of equally-spaced energy ei…

quant-ph2019★ 88 cited

Quantum dynamics of a few-photon parametric oscillator

Zhaoyou Wang, Marek Pechal, E. Alex Wollack +4

Modulating the frequency of a harmonic oscillator at nearly twice its natural frequency leads to amplification and self-oscillation. Above the oscillation threshold, the field sett…

quant-ph2018★ 89 cited

Coupling a superconducting quantum circuit to a phononic crystal defect cavity

Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, E. Alex Wollack, Marek Pechal +3

Connecting nanoscale mechanical resonators to microwave quantum circuits opens new avenues for storing, processing, and transmitting quantum information. In this work, we couple a…