Control of microwave signals using circuit nano-electromechanics

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the control of microwave signals using a superconducting resonator coupled to a nano-mechanical oscillator, enabling advanced microwave signal processing techniques through electromechanically induced transparency.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hybrid system coupling a superconducting resonator with a nano-mechanical oscillator to achieve microwave signal control via electromechanical effects.

Findings

Achieved all-microwave control of signals including slowing, advancing, and switching.

Demonstrated electromechanically induced transparency in a superconducting circuit.

Extended control techniques for classical and quantum microwave signals.

Abstract

Waveguide resonators are crucial elements in sensitive astrophysical detectors [1] and circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) [2]. Coupled to artificial atoms in the form of superconducting qubits [3, 4], they now provide a technologically promising and scalable platform for quantum information processing tasks [2, 5-8]. Coupling these circuits, in situ, to other quantum systems, such as molecules [9, 10], spin ensembles [11, 12], quantum dots [13] or mechanical oscillators [14, 15] has been explored to realize hybrid systems with extended functionality. Here, we couple a superconducting coplanar waveguide resonator to a nano-coshmechanical oscillator, and demonstrate all-microwave field controlled slowing, advancing and switching of microwave signals. This is enabled by utilizing electromechanically induced transparency [16-18], an effect analogous to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in atomic physics [19]. The exquisite temporal control gained over this phenomenon provides a route towards realizing advanced protocols for storage of both classical and quantum microwave signals [20-22], extending the toolbox of control techniques of the microwave field.