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Coupling a Superconducting Quantum Circuit to a Phononic Crystal Defect Cavity

Connecting nanoscale mechanical resonators to microwave quantum circuits opens new avenues for storing, processing, and transmitting quantum information. In this work, we couple a phononic crystal cavity to a tunable superconducting quantum circuit. By fabricating a one-dimensional periodic pattern...

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Published in:Physical review. X 2018-07, Vol.8 (3), p.031007, Article 031007
Main Authors: Arrangoiz-Arriola, Patricio, Wollack, E. Alex, Pechal, Marek, Witmer, Jeremy D., Hill, Jeff T., Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
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Language:English
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Summary:Connecting nanoscale mechanical resonators to microwave quantum circuits opens new avenues for storing, processing, and transmitting quantum information. In this work, we couple a phononic crystal cavity to a tunable superconducting quantum circuit. By fabricating a one-dimensional periodic pattern in a thin film of lithium niobate and introducing a defect in this artificial lattice, we localize a 6-GHz acoustic resonance to a wavelength-scale volume of less than 1 cubic micron. The strong piezoelectricity of lithium niobate efficiently couples the localized vibrations to the electric field of a widely tunable high-impedance Josephson junction array resonator. We measure a direct phonon-photon coupling rateg/2π≈1.6MHzand a mechanical quality factorQm≈3×104, leading to a cooperativityC∼4when the two modes are tuned into resonance. Our work has direct application to engineering hybrid quantum systems for microwave-to-optical conversion as well as emerging architectures for quantum information processing.
ISSN:2160-3308
2160-3308
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031007