@inproceedings{1011,
  abstract     = {Pushdown systems (PDSs) and recursive state machines (RSMs), which are linearly equivalent, are standard models for interprocedural analysis. Yet RSMs are more convenient as they (a) explicitly model function calls and returns, and (b) specify many natural parameters for algorithmic analysis, e.g., the number of entries and exits. We consider a general framework where RSM transitions are labeled from a semiring and path properties are algebraic with semiring operations, which can model, e.g., interprocedural reachability and dataflow analysis problems. Our main contributions are new algorithms for several fundamental problems. As compared to a direct translation of RSMs to PDSs and the best-known existing bounds of PDSs, our analysis algorithm improves the complexity for finite-height semirings (that subsumes reachability and standard dataflow properties). We further consider the problem of extracting distance values from the representation structures computed by our algorithm, and give efficient algorithms that distinguish the complexity of a one-time preprocessing from the complexity of each individual query. Another advantage of our algorithm is that our improvements carry over to the concurrent setting, where we improve the bestknown complexity for the context-bounded analysis of concurrent RSMs. Finally, we provide a prototype implementation that gives a significant speed-up on several benchmarks from the SLAM/SDV project.},
  author       = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Kragl, Bernhard and Mishra, Samarth and Pavlogiannis, Andreas},
  editor       = {Yang, Hongseok},
  issn         = {0302-9743},
  location     = {Uppsala, Sweden},
  pages        = {287 -- 313},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Faster algorithms for weighted recursive state machines}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-662-54434-1_11},
  volume       = {10201},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1013,
  abstract     = {From microwave ovens to satellite television to the GPS and data services on our mobile phones, microwave technology is everywhere today. But one technology that has so far failed to prove its worth in this wavelength regime is quantum communication that uses the states of single photons as information carriers. This is because single microwave photons, as opposed to classical microwave signals, are extremely vulnerable to noise from thermal excitations in the channels through which they travel. Two new independent studies, one by Ze-Liang Xiang at Technische Universität Wien (Vienna), Austria, and colleagues [1] and another by Benoît Vermersch at the University of Innsbruck, also in Austria, and colleagues [2] now describe a theoretical protocol for microwave quantum communication that is resilient to thermal and other types of noise. Their approach could become a powerful technique to establish fast links between superconducting data processors in a future all-microwave quantum network.},
  author       = {Fink, Johannes M},
  journal      = {Physics},
  number       = {32},
  publisher    = {American Physical Society},
  title        = {{Viewpoint: Microwave quantum states beat the heat}},
  doi          = {10.1103/Physics.10.32},
  volume       = {10},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1015,
  abstract     = {Vortices are commonly observed in the context of classical hydrodynamics: from whirlpools after stirring the coffee in a cup to a violent atmospheric phenomenon such as a tornado, all classical vortices are characterized by an arbitrary circulation value of the local velocity field. On the other hand the appearance of vortices with quantized circulation represents one of the fundamental signatures of macroscopic quantum phenomena. In two-dimensional superfluids quantized vortices play a key role in determining finite-temperature properties, as the superfluid phase and the normal state are separated by a vortex unbinding transition, the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. Very recent experiments with two-dimensional superfluid fermions motivate the present work: we present theoretical results based on the renormalization group showing that the universal jump of the superfluid density and the critical temperature crucially depend on the interaction strength, providing a strong benchmark for forthcoming investigations.},
  author       = {Bighin, Giacomo and Salasnich, Luca},
  issn         = {2045-2322},
  journal      = {Scientific Reports},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{Vortices and antivortices in two-dimensional ultracold Fermi gases}},
  doi          = {10.1038/srep45702},
  volume       = {7},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1017,
  abstract     = {The development of the vertebrate central nervous system is reliant on a complex cascade of biological processes that include mitotic division, relocation of migrating neurons, and the extension of dendritic and axonal processes. Each of these cellular events requires the diverse functional repertoire of the microtubule cytoskeleton for the generation of forces, assembly of macromolecular complexes and transport of molecules and organelles. The tubulins are a multi-gene family that encode for the constituents of microtubules, and have been implicated in a spectrum of neurological disorders. Evidence is building that different tubulins tune the functional properties of the microtubule cytoskeleton dependent on the cell type, developmental profile and subcellular localisation. Here we review of the origins of the functional specification of the tubulin gene family in the developing brain at a transcriptional, translational, and post-transcriptional level. We remind the reader that tubulins are not just loading controls for your average Western blot.},
  author       = {Breuss, Martin and Leca, Ines and Gstrein, Thomas and Hansen, Andi H and Keays, David},
  issn         = {1044-7431},
  journal      = {Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience},
  pages        = {58 -- 67},
  publisher    = {Academic Press},
  title        = {{Tubulins and brain development: The origins of functional specification}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.mcn.2017.03.002},
  volume       = {84},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1018,
  abstract     = {In plants, the multistep phosphorelay (MSP) pathway mediates a range of regulatory processes, including those activated by cytokinins. The crosstalk between cytokinin response and light is known for a long time. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the interactionbetween light and cytokinin signaling remains elusive. In the screen for upstream regulators we identified a LONG PALE HYPOCOTYL (LPH) gene whose activity is indispensable for spatiotemporally correct expression of CYTOKININ INDEPENDENT-1 (CKI1), encoding the constitutively active sensor histidine kinase that activates MSP signaling. lph is a new allele of HEME OXYGENASE 1 (HY1) which encodes the key protein in the biosynthesis of phytochromobilin, a cofactor of photoconvertiblephytochromes. Our analysis confirmed the light-dependent regulation oftheCKI1 expression pattern. We show that CKI1 expression is under the control of phytochrome A (phyA), functioning as a dual (both positive and negative) regulator of CKI1 expression, presumably via the phyA-regulated transcription factors PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 3 (PIF3) and CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1). Changes in CKI1 expression observed in lph/hy1-7 and phy mutants correlatewithmisregulation of MSP signaling, changedcytokinin sensitivity and developmental aberrations,previously shown to be associated with cytokinin and/or CKI1 action. Besides that, we demonstrate novel role of phyA-dependent CKI1 expression in the hypocotyl elongation and hook development during skotomorphogenesis. Based on these results, we propose that the light-dependent regulation of CKI1 provides a plausible mechanistic link underlying the well-known interaction between light- and cytokinin-controlled plant development.},
  author       = {Dobisova, Tereza and Hrdinova, Vendula and Cuesta, Candela and Michlickova, Sarka and Urbankova, Ivana and Hejatkova, Romana and Zadnikova, Petra and Pernisová, Markéta and Benková, Eva and Hejátko, Jan},
  journal      = {Plant Physiology},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {387 -- 404},
  publisher    = {American Society of Plant Biologists},
  title        = {{Light regulated expression of sensor histidine kinase CKI1 controls cytokinin related development}},
  doi          = {10.1104/pp.16.01964},
  volume       = {174},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1019,
  abstract     = {As a consequence of its difference in copy number between males and females, the X chromosome is subject to unique evolutionary forces and gene regulatory mechanisms. Previous studies of Drosophila melanogaster have shown that the expression of X-linked, testis-specific reporter genes is suppressed in the male germline. However, it is not known whether this phenomenon is restricted to testis-expressed genes or if it is a more general property of genes with tissue-specific expression, which are also underrepresented on the X chromosome. To test this, we compared the expression of three tissue-specific reporter genes (ovary, accessory gland and Malpighian tubule) inserted at various autosomal and X-chromosomal locations. In contrast to testis-specific reporter genes, we found no reduction of X-linked expression in any of the other tissues. In accessory gland and Malpighian tubule, we detected higher expression of the X-linked reporter genes, which suggests that they are at least partially dosage compensated. We found no difference in the tissue-specificity of X-linked and autosomal reporter genes. These findings indicate that, in general, the X chromosome is not a detrimental environment for tissue-specific gene expression and that the suppression of X-linked expression is limited to the male germline.},
  author       = {Argyridou, Eliza and Huylmans, Ann K and Königer, Annabella and Parsch, John},
  issn         = {0018-067X},
  journal      = {Heredity},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {27 -- 34},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{X-linkage is not a general inhibitor of tissue-specific gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster}},
  doi          = {10.1038/hdy.2017.12},
  volume       = {119},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1020,
  abstract     = {Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer on Earth. Cellulose fibers, such as the one extracted form cotton or woodpulp, have been used by humankind for hundreds of years to make textiles and paper. Here we show how, by engineering light-matter interaction, we can optimize light scattering using exclusively cellulose nanocrystals. The produced material is sustainable, biocompatible, and when compared to ordinary microfiber-based paper, it shows enhanced scattering strength (×4), yielding a transport mean free path as low as 3.5 μm in the visible light range. The experimental results are in a good agreement with the theoretical predictions obtained with a diffusive model for light propagation.},
  author       = {Caixeiro, Soraya and Peruzzo, Matilda and Onelli, Olimpia and Vignolini, Silvia and Sapienza, Riccardo},
  issn         = {1944-8244},
  journal      = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
  number       = {9},
  pages        = {7885 -- 7890},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Disordered cellulose based nanostructures for enhanced light scattering}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acsami.6b15986},
  volume       = {9},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1021,
  abstract     = {Most flows in nature and engineering are turbulent because of their large velocities and spatial scales. Laboratory experiments on rotating quasi-Keplerian flows, for which the angular velocity decreases radially but the angular momentum increases, are however laminar at Reynolds numbers exceeding one million. This is in apparent contradiction to direct numerical simulations showing that in these experiments turbulence transition is triggered by the axial boundaries. We here show numerically that as the Reynolds number increases, turbulence becomes progressively confined to the boundary layers and the flow in the bulk fully relaminarizes. Our findings support that turbulence is unlikely to occur in isothermal constant-density quasi-Keplerian flows.},
  author       = {Lopez Alonso, Jose M and Avila, Marc},
  issn         = {0022-1120},
  journal      = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  pages        = {21 -- 34},
  publisher    = {Cambridge University Press},
  title        = {{Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows}},
  doi          = {10.1017/jfm.2017.109},
  volume       = {817},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1022,
  abstract     = {We introduce a multiscale topological description of the Megaparsec web-like cosmic matter distribution. Betti numbers and topological persistence offer a powerful means of describing the rich connectivity structure of the cosmic web and of its multiscale arrangement of matter and galaxies. Emanating from algebraic topology and Morse theory, Betti numbers and persistence diagrams represent an extension and deepening of the cosmologically familiar topological genus measure and the related geometric Minkowski functionals. In addition to a description of the mathematical background, this study presents the computational procedure for computing Betti numbers and persistence diagrams for density field filtrations. The field may be computed starting from a discrete spatial distribution of galaxies or simulation particles. The main emphasis of this study concerns an extensive and systematic exploration of the imprint of different web-like morphologies and different levels of multiscale clustering in the corresponding computed Betti numbers and persistence diagrams. To this end, we use Voronoi clustering models as templates for a rich variety of web-like configurations and the fractal-like Soneira-Peebles models exemplify a range of multiscale configurations. We have identified the clear imprint of cluster nodes, filaments, walls, and voids in persistence diagrams, along with that of the nested hierarchy of structures in multiscale point distributions. We conclude by outlining the potential of persistent topology for understanding the connectivity structure of the cosmic web, in large simulations of cosmic structure formation and in the challenging context of the observed galaxy distribution in large galaxy surveys.},
  author       = {Pranav, Pratyush and Edelsbrunner, Herbert and Van De Weygaert, Rien and Vegter, Gert and Kerber, Michael and Jones, Bernard and Wintraecken, Mathijs},
  issn         = {0035-8711},
  journal      = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {4281 -- 4310},
  publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
  title        = {{The topology of the cosmic web in terms of persistent Betti numbers}},
  doi          = {10.1093/mnras/stw2862},
  volume       = {465},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1023,
  abstract     = {We consider products of independent square non-Hermitian random matrices. More precisely, let X1,…, Xn be independent N × N random matrices with independent entries (real or complex with independent real and imaginary parts) with zero mean and variance 1/N. Soshnikov-O’Rourke [19] and Götze-Tikhomirov [15] showed that the empirical spectral distribution of the product of n random matrices with iid entries converges to (equation found). We prove that if the entries of the matrices X1,…, Xn are independent (but not necessarily identically distributed) and satisfy uniform subexponential decay condition, then in the bulk the convergence of the ESD of X1,…, Xn to (0.1) holds up to the scale N–1/2+ε.},
  author       = {Nemish, Yuriy},
  issn         = {1083-6489},
  journal      = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
  publisher    = {Institute of Mathematical Statistics},
  title        = {{Local law for the product of independent non-Hermitian random matrices with independent entries}},
  doi          = {10.1214/17-EJP38},
  volume       = {22},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{1025,
  abstract     = {Many organ surfaces are covered by a protective epithelial-cell layer. It emerges that such layers are maintained by cell stretching that triggers cell division mediated by the force-sensitive ion-channel protein Piezo1. See Letter p.118},
  author       = {Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp J},
  issn         = {0028-0836},
  journal      = {Nature},
  number       = {7643},
  pages        = {43 -- 44},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{Cell biology: Stretched divisions}},
  doi          = {10.1038/nature21502},
  volume       = {543},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{10416,
  abstract     = {A fundamental algorithmic problem at the heart of static analysis is Dyck reachability. The input is a graph where the edges are labeled with different types of opening and closing parentheses, and the reachability information is computed via paths whose parentheses are properly matched. We present new results for Dyck reachability problems with applications to alias analysis and data-dependence analysis. Our main contributions, that include improved upper bounds as well as lower bounds that establish optimality guarantees, are as follows: First, we consider Dyck reachability on bidirected graphs, which is the standard way of performing field-sensitive points-to analysis. Given a bidirected graph with n nodes and m edges, we present: (i) an algorithm with worst-case running time O(m + n · α(n)), where α(n) is the inverse Ackermann function, improving the previously known O(n2) time bound; (ii) a matching lower bound that shows that our algorithm is optimal wrt to worst-case complexity; and (iii) an optimal average-case upper bound of O(m) time, improving the previously known O(m · logn) bound. Second, we consider the problem of context-sensitive data-dependence analysis, where the task is to obtain analysis summaries of library code in the presence of callbacks. Our algorithm preprocesses libraries in almost linear time, after which the contribution of the library in the complexity of the client analysis is only linear, and only wrt the number of call sites. Third, we prove that combinatorial algorithms for Dyck reachability on general graphs with truly sub-cubic bounds cannot be obtained without obtaining sub-cubic combinatorial algorithms for Boolean Matrix Multiplication, which is a long-standing open problem. Thus we establish that the existing combinatorial algorithms for Dyck reachability are (conditionally) optimal for general graphs. We also show that the same hardness holds for graphs of constant treewidth. Finally, we provide a prototype implementation of our algorithms for both alias analysis and data-dependence analysis. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that the new algorithms significantly outperform all existing methods on the two problems, over real-world benchmarks.},
  author       = {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Choudhary, Bhavya and Pavlogiannis, Andreas},
  issn         = {2475-1421},
  journal      = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
  location     = {Los Angeles, CA, United States},
  number       = {POPL},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title        = {{Optimal Dyck reachability for data-dependence and Alias analysis}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3158118},
  volume       = {2},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{10418,
  abstract     = {We present a new proof rule for proving almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs, including those that contain demonic non-determinism. An important question for a probabilistic program is whether the probability mass of all its diverging runs is zero, that is that it terminates "almost surely". Proving that can be hard, and this paper presents a new method for doing so. It applies directly to the program's source code, even if the program contains demonic choice. Like others, we use variant functions (a.k.a. "super-martingales") that are real-valued and decrease randomly on each loop iteration; but our key innovation is that the amount as well as the probability of the decrease are parametric. We prove the soundness of the new rule, indicate where its applicability goes beyond existing rules, and explain its connection to classical results on denumerable (non-demonic) Markov chains.},
  author       = {Mciver, Annabelle and Morgan, Carroll and Kaminski, Benjamin Lucien and Katoen, Joost P},
  issn         = {2475-1421},
  journal      = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
  location     = {Los Angeles, CA, United States},
  number       = {POPL},
  publisher    = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  title        = {{A new proof rule for almost-sure termination}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3158121},
  volume       = {2},
  year         = {2017},
}

@inproceedings{791,
  abstract     = {Consider the following random process: we are given n queues, into which elements of increasing labels are inserted uniformly at random. To remove an element, we pick two queues at random, and remove the element of lower label (higher priority) among the two. The cost of a removal is the rank of the label removed, among labels still present in any of the queues, that is, the distance from the optimal choice at each step. Variants of this strategy are prevalent in state-of-the-art concurrent priority queue implementations. Nonetheless, it is not known whether such implementations provide any rank guarantees, even in a sequential model. We answer this question, showing that this strategy provides surprisingly strong guarantees: Although the single-choice process, where we always insert and remove from a single randomly chosen queue, has degrading cost, going to infinity as we increase the number of steps, in the two choice process, the expected rank of a removed element is O(n) while the expected worst-case cost is O(n log n). These bounds are tight, and hold irrespective of the number of steps for which we run the process. The argument is based on a new technical connection between &quot;heavily loaded&quot; balls-into-bins processes and priority scheduling. Our analytic results inspire a new concurrent priority queue implementation, which improves upon the state of the art in terms of practical performance.},
  author       = {Alistarh, Dan-Adrian and Kopinsky, Justin and Li, Jerry and Nadiradze, Giorgi},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing},
  isbn         = {978-145034992-5},
  location     = {Washington, WA, USA},
  pages        = {283 -- 292},
  publisher    = {ACM},
  title        = {{The power of choice in priority scheduling}},
  doi          = {10.1145/3087801.3087810},
  volume       = {Part F129314},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{792,
  abstract     = {The chaotic dynamics of low-dimensional systems, such as Lorenz or Rössler flows, is guided by the infinity of periodic orbits embedded in their strange attractors. Whether this is also the case for the infinite-dimensional dynamics of Navier–Stokes equations has long been speculated, and is a topic of ongoing study. Periodic and relative periodic solutions have been shown to be involved in transitions to turbulence. Their relevance to turbulent dynamics – specifically, whether periodic orbits play the same role in high-dimensional nonlinear systems like the Navier–Stokes equations as they do in lower-dimensional systems – is the focus of the present investigation. We perform here a detailed study of pipe flow relative periodic orbits with energies and mean dissipations close to turbulent values. We outline several approaches to reduction of the translational symmetry of the system. We study pipe flow in a minimal computational cell at   Re=2500, and report a library of invariant solutions found with the aid of the method of slices. Detailed study of the unstable manifolds of a sample of these solutions is consistent with the picture that relative periodic orbits are embedded in the chaotic saddle and that they guide the turbulent dynamics.},
  author       = {Budanur, Nazmi B and Short, Kimberly and Farazmand, Mohammad and Willis, Ashley and Cvitanović, Predrag},
  issn         = {0022-1120},
  journal      = {Journal of Fluid Mechanics},
  pages        = {274 -- 301},
  publisher    = {Cambridge University Press},
  title        = {{Relative periodic orbits form the backbone of turbulent pipe flow}},
  doi          = {10.1017/jfm.2017.699},
  volume       = {833},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{794,
  abstract     = {We show that c-planarity is solvable in quadratic time for flat clustered graphs with three clusters if the combinatorial embedding of the underlying graph is fixed. In simpler graph-theoretical terms our result can be viewed as follows. Given a graph G with the vertex set partitioned into three parts embedded on a 2-sphere, our algorithm decides if we can augment G by adding edges without creating an edge-crossing so that in the resulting spherical graph the vertices of each part induce a connected sub-graph. We proceed by a reduction to the problem of testing the existence of a perfect matching in planar bipartite graphs. We formulate our result in a slightly more general setting of cyclic clustered graphs, i.e., the simple graph obtained by contracting each cluster, where we disregard loops and multi-edges, is a cycle.},
  author       = {Fulek, Radoslav},
  journal      = {Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications},
  pages        = {1 -- 13},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{C-planarity of embedded cyclic c-graphs}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.comgeo.2017.06.016},
  volume       = {66},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{795,
  abstract     = {We introduce a common generalization of the strong Hanani–Tutte theorem and the weak Hanani–Tutte theorem: if a graph G has a drawing D in the plane where every pair of independent edges crosses an even number of times, then G has a planar drawing preserving the rotation of each vertex whose incident edges cross each other evenly in D. The theorem is implicit in the proof of the strong Hanani–Tutte theorem by Pelsmajer, Schaefer and Štefankovič. We give a new, somewhat simpler proof.},
  author       = {Fulek, Radoslav and Kynčl, Jan and Pálvölgyi, Dömötör},
  issn         = {1077-8926},
  journal      = {Electronic Journal of Combinatorics},
  number       = {3},
  publisher    = {International Press},
  title        = {{Unified Hanani Tutte theorem}},
  doi          = {10.37236/6663},
  volume       = {24},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{796,
  abstract     = {We present the fabrication and characterization of an aluminum transmon qubit on a silicon-on-insulator substrate. Key to the qubit fabrication is the use of an anhydrous hydrofluoric vapor process which selectively removes the lossy silicon oxide buried underneath the silicon device layer. For a 5.6 GHz qubit measured dispersively by a 7.1 GHz resonator, we find T1 = 3.5 μs and T∗2 = 2.2 μs. This process in principle permits the co-fabrication of silicon photonic and mechanical elements, providing a route towards chip-scale integration of electro-opto-mechanical transducers for quantum networking of superconducting microwave quantum circuits. The additional processing steps are compatible with established fabrication techniques for aluminum transmon qubits on silicon.},
  author       = {Keller, Andrew J and Dieterle, Paul and Fang, Michael and Berger, Brett and Fink, Johannes M and Painter, Oskar},
  issn         = {0003-6951},
  journal      = {Applied Physics Letters},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {American Institute of Physics},
  title        = {{Al transmon qubits on silicon on insulator for quantum device integration}},
  doi          = {10.1063/1.4994661},
  volume       = {111},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{797,
  abstract     = {Phasenübergänge helfen beim Verständnis von Vielteilchensystemen in der Festkörperphysik und Fluiddynamik bis hin zur Teilchenphysik. Unserer internationalen Kollaboration ist es gelungen, einen neuartigen Phasenübergang in einem Quantensystem zu beobachten [1]. In einem Mikrowellenresonator konnte erstmals die spontane Zustandsänderung von undurchsichtig zu transparent nachgewiesen werden.},
  author       = {Fink, Johannes M},
  journal      = {Physik in unserer Zeit},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {111 -- 113},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Photonenblockade aufgelöst}},
  doi          = {10.1002/piuz.201770305},
  volume       = {48},
  year         = {2017},
}

@article{798,
  abstract     = {Nonreciprocal circuit elements form an integral part of modern measurement and communication systems. Mathematically they require breaking of time-reversal symmetry, typically achieved using magnetic materials and more recently using the quantum Hall effect, parametric permittivity modulation or Josephson nonlinearities. Here we demonstrate an on-chip magnetic-free circulator based on reservoir-engineered electromechanic interactions. Directional circulation is achieved with controlled phase-sensitive interference of six distinct electro-mechanical signal conversion paths. The presented circulator is compact, its silicon-on-insulator platform is compatible with both superconducting qubits and silicon photonics, and its noise performance is close to the quantum limit. With a high dynamic range, a tunable bandwidth of up to 30 MHz and an in situ reconfigurability as beam splitter or wavelength converter, it could pave the way for superconducting qubit processors with multiplexed on-chip signal processing and readout.},
  author       = {Barzanjeh, Shabir and Wulf, Matthias and Peruzzo, Matilda and Kalaee, Mahmoud and Dieterle, Paul and Painter, Oskar and Fink, Johannes M},
  issn         = {2041-1723},
  journal      = {Nature Communications},
  number       = {1},
  publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
  title        = {{Mechanical on chip microwave circulator}},
  doi          = {10.1038/s41467-017-01304-x},
  volume       = {8},
  year         = {2017},
}

