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year 2020
author(s) Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Caspar F. Ockeloen-Korppi, Daniel Malz, Mika A. Sillanpää
title Nonreciprocal Transport Based on Cavity Floquet Modes in Optomechanics
document type Paper
source Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023603 (2020)
doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.023603
arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10541
EMP/Horizon2020 This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement.
abstract

Directional transport is obtained in various multimode systems by driving multiple, nonreciprocally interfering interactions between individual bosonic modes. However, systems sustaining the required number of modes become physically complex. In our microwave-optomechanical experiment, we show how to configure nonreciprocal transport between frequency components of a single superconducting cavity coupled to two drumhead oscillators. The frequency components are promoted to Floquet modes and generate the missing dimension to realize an isolator and a directional amplifier. A second cavity left free by this arrangement is used to cool the mechanical oscillators and bring the transduction noise close to the quantum limit. We furthermore uncover a new type of instability specific to nonreciprocal coupling. Our approach is generic and can greatly simplify quantum signal processing and the design of topological lattices from low-dimensional systems.