Orbital design of Berry curvature: pinch points and giant dipoles induced by crystal fields

Kavli Affiliate: Andrea D. Caviglia | First 5 Authors: Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Canio Noce, Andrea D. Caviglia, Mario Cuoco, Carmine Ortix | Summary: The Berry curvature (BC) – a quantity encoding the geometric properties of the electronic wavefunctions in a solid – is at the heart of different Hall-like transport phenomena, including the anomalous Hall […]


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Dissipative Optomechanics in High-Frequency Nanomechanical Resonators

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: André G. Primo, Pedro V. Pinho, Rodrigo Benevides, Simon Gröblacher, Gustavo S. Wiederhecker | Summary: The coherent transduction of information between microwave and optical domains is a fundamental building block for future quantum networks. A promising way to bridge these widely different frequencies is using high-frequency nanomechanical […]


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Photon-Pressure with a Negative Mass Microwave Mode

Kavli Affiliate: Gary A. Steele | First 5 Authors: Ines C. Rodrigues, Gary A. Steele, Daniel Bothner, , | Summary: Harmonic oscillators belong to the most fundamental concepts in physics and are central to many current research fields such as circuit QED, cavity optomechanics and photon-pressure systems. Here, we engineer an effective negative mass harmonic […]


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Photon-Pressure with an Effective Negative Mass Microwave Mode

Kavli Affiliate: Gary A. Steele | First 5 Authors: Ines C. Rodrigues, Gary A. Steele, Daniel Bothner, , | Summary: Harmonic oscillators belong to the most fundamental concepts in physics and are central to many current research fields such as circuit QED, cavity optomechanics and photon-pressure systems. Here, we engineer a microwave mode in a […]


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Resolving non-perturbative renormalization of a microwave-dressed weakly anharmonic superconducting qubit

Kavli Affiliate: Gary A. Steele | First 5 Authors: Byoung-moo Ann, Sercan Deve, Gary A. Steele, , | Summary: Microwave driving is a ubiquitous technique for superconducting qubits (SCQs), but the dressed states description based on the conventionally used perturbation theory cannot fully capture the dynamics in the strong driving limit. Comprehensive studies beyond these […]


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Controlled crossed Andreev reflection and elastic co-tunneling mediated by Andreev bound states

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Alberto Bordin, Guanzhong Wang, Chun-Xiao Liu, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Grzegorz P. Mazur | Summary: A short superconducting segment can couple attached quantum dots via elastic co-tunneling (ECT) and crossed Andreev reflection (CAR). Such coupled quantum dots can host Majorana bound states provided that the ratio […]


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Fusion protocol for Majorana modes in coupled quantum dots

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Chun-Xiao Liu, Haining Pan, F. Setiawan, Michael Wimmer, Jay D. Sau | Summary: In a recent breakthrough experiment (arXiv:2206.08045), Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy for a minimal Kitaev chain constructed from coupled quantum dots. However, as Ising anyons, Majoranas’ most fundamental property of […]


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Fusion protocol for Majorana modes in coupled quantum dots

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Wimmer | First 5 Authors: Chun-Xiao Liu, Haining Pan, F. Setiawan, Michael Wimmer, Jay D. Sau | Summary: In a recent breakthrough experiment [Nature (London) 614, 445 (2023)], signatures of Majorana zero modes have been observed in tunnel spectroscopy for a minimal Kitaev chain constructed from coupled quantum dots. However, as Ising […]


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Beating ringdowns of near-degenerate mechanical resonances

Kavli Affiliate: Simon Groblacher | First 5 Authors: Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Andrea Cupertino, Dongil Shin, Simon Gröblacher, Farbod Alijani | Summary: Mechanical resonators that possess coupled modes with harmonic frequency relations have recently sparked interest due to their suitability for controllable energy transfer and non-Hermitian dynamics. Here, we show coupling between high Q-factor […]


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