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20192025
most citedBidirectional electro-optic conversion reaching 1% efficiency with thin-film lithium niobate

128 citations · 574 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Nonlinear Co-simulation for Designing Kinetic Inductance Parametric Amplifiers

Likai Yang, Yufeng Wu, Chaofan Wang +4

Kinetic inductance parametric amplifiers (KIPAs) have been widely studied for small-signal detection in superconducting quantum circuits. In this work, we demonstrate the modeling…

quant-ph2025

Broad Spectrum Coherent Frequency Conversion with Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Metastructures

Yufeng Wu, Chaofan Wang, Danqing Wang +3

Parametric frequency converters (PFCs) play a critical role in bridging the frequency gap between quantum information carriers. PFCs in the microwave band are particularly importan…

quant-ph2023

Light-Induced Microwave Noise in Superconducting Microwave-Optical Transducers

Mingrui Xu, Chunzhen Li, Yuntao Xu +1

Microwave-to-optical transducers are integral to the future of superconducting quantum computing, as they would enable scaling and long-distance communication of superconducting qu…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Radiatively-cooled quantum microwave amplifiers

Mingrui Xu, Yufeng Wu, Wei Dai +1

Superconducting microwave amplifiers are essential for sensitive signal readout in superconducting quantum processors. Typically based on Josephson Junctions, these amplifiers requ…

physics.app-ph2022

Light-induced dynamic frequency shifting of microwave photons in a superconducting electro-optic converter

Yuntao Xu, Wei Fu, Yiyu Zhou +4

Hybrid superconducting-photonic microresonators are a promising platform for realizing microwave-to-optical transduction. However, the absorption of scattered photons by the superc…

quant-ph2022

Magnetic field-resilient quantum-limited parametric amplifier

Mingrui Xu, Risheng Cheng, Yufeng Wu +2

Superconducting parametric amplifiers are crucial components in microwave quantum circuits for enabling quantum-limited signal readout. The best-performing such amplifiers are ofte…

physics.app-ph2022★ 28 cited

Superconducting cavity piezo-electromechanics: the realization of an acoustic frequency comb at microwave frequencies

Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou, Wei Fu +3

We present a nonlinear multimode superconducting electroacoustic system, where the interplay between superconducting kinetic inductance and piezoelectric strong coupling establishe…

quant-ph2022

Quantum transduction is enhanced by single mode squeezing operators

Changchun Zhong, Mingrui Xu, Aashish Clerk +2

Quantum transduction is an essential ingredient in scaling up distributed quantum architecture and is actively pursued based on various physical platforms. However, demonstrating a…

physics.optics2021★ 128 cited

Bidirectional electro-optic conversion reaching 1% efficiency with thin-film lithium niobate

Yuntao Xu, Ayed Al Sayem, Linran Fan +7

Superconducting cavity electro-optics (EO) presents a promising route to coherently convert microwave and optical photons and distribute quantum entanglement between superconductin…

quant-ph2020★ 56 cited

Ground-state Pulsed Cavity Electro-optics for Microwave-to-optical Conversion

Wei Fu, Mingrui Xu, Xianwen Liu +9

In the development of quantum microwave-to-optical (MO) converters, excessive noise induced by the parametric optical drive remains a major challenge at milli-Kelvin temperatures.…

physics.optics2020★ 123 cited

Cavity piezo-mechanics for superconducting-nanophotonic quantum interface

Xu Han, Wei Fu, Changchun Zhong +8

Hybrid quantum systems are essential for the realization of distributed quantum networks. In particular, piezo-mechanics operating at typical superconducting qubit frequencies feat…

physics.app-ph2019★ 60 cited

Magnon-photon strong coupling for tunable microwave circulators

Na Zhu, Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou +2

We present a generic theoretical framework to describe non-reciprocal microwave circulation in a multimode cavity magnonic system and assess the optimal performance of practical ci…

quant-ph2019★ 47 cited

Radiative cooling of a superconducting resonator

Mingrui Xu, Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou +5

Cooling microwave resonators to near the quantum ground state, crucial for their operation in the quantum regime, is typically achieved by direct device refrigeration to a few tens…

quant-ph2019★ 32 cited

Quantum Microwave Radiometry with a Superconducting Qubit

Zhixin Wang, Mingrui Xu, Xu Han +6

The interaction of photons and coherent quantum systems can be employed to detect electromagnetic radiation with remarkable sensitivity. We introduce a quantum radiometer based on…

quant-ph2019★ 98 cited

Heralded Generation and Detection of Entangled Microwave--Optical Photon Pairs

Changchun Zhong, Zhixin Wang, Changling Zou +8

Quantum state transfer between microwave and optical frequencies is essential for connecting superconducting quantum circuits to coherent optical systems and extending microwave qu…