{"id":116401,"date":"2020-11-27T21:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/a-photonic-crystal-coupled-to-a-transmission-line-via-an-artificial-atom"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T05:25:26","slug":"a-photonic-crystal-coupled-to-a-transmission-line-via-an-artificial-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/a-photonic-crystal-coupled-to-a-transmission-line-via-an-artificial-atom","title":{"rendered":"A photonic crystal coupled to a transmission line via an artificial atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-photonic-crystal-coupled-to-a-transmission-line-via-an-artificial-atom.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have recently displayed the interaction of superconducting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/engineering\/qubit\">qubits<\/a>; the basic unit of quantum information, with <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/1454469\">surface acoustic wave resonators<\/a>; a surface-wave equivalent of the crystal resonator, in quantum physics. This phenomena opens a new field of research, defined as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-017-01063-9\">quantum acoustodynamics<\/a> to allow the development of new types of quantum devices. The main challenge in this venture is to manufacture acoustic resonators in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/heo\/scan\/spectrum\/radio_spectrum\/\">gigahertz range<\/a>. In a new report now published on <i>Nature<\/i> <i>Communications Physics<\/i>, Aleksey N. Bolgar and a team of physicists in Artificial Quantum Systems and Physics, in Russia and the U.K., detailed the structure of a significantly simplified hybrid acoustodynamic device by replacing an acoustic resonator with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1369702109703153\">phononic crystal or acoustic metamaterial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The crystal contained narrow metallic stripes on a quartz surface and this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+atoms\/\">artificial atom<\/a> or metal object in turn interacted with a microwave <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-1-4615-2500-4_7\">transmission line<\/a>. In engineering, a transmission line is a connector that transmits energy from one point to another. The scientists used the setup to couple two degrees of freedom of different nature, i.e. acoustic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/chemistry\/electromagnetic-wave\">electromagnetic<\/a>, with a single quantum object. Using a scattering spectrum of propagating electromagnetic waves on the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/artificial+atom\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial atom<\/a> they visualized acoustic modes of the phononic crystal. The geometry of the device allowed them to realize the effects of quantum acoustics on a simple and compact system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have recently displayed the interaction of superconducting qubits; the basic unit of quantum information, with surface acoustic wave resonators; a surface-wave equivalent of the crystal resonator, in quantum physics. This phenomena opens a new field of research, defined as quantum acoustodynamics to allow the development of new types of quantum devices. The main challenge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}