--- _id: '155' abstract: - lang: eng text: There is currently significant interest in operating devices in the quantum regime, where their behaviour cannot be explained through classical mechanics. Quantum states, including entangled states, are fragile and easily disturbed by excessive thermal noise. Here we address the question of whether it is possible to create non-reciprocal devices that encourage the flow of thermal noise towards or away from a particular quantum device in a network. Our work makes use of the cascaded systems formalism to answer this question in the affirmative, showing how a three-port device can be used as an effective thermal transistor, and illustrates how this formalism maps onto an experimentally-realisable optomechanical system. Our results pave the way to more resilient quantum devices and to the use of thermal noise as a resource. alternative_title: - Proceedings of SPIE article_number: 106721N article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: André full_name: Xuereb, André last_name: Xuereb - first_name: Matteo full_name: Aquilina, Matteo last_name: Aquilina - first_name: Shabir full_name: Barzanjeh, Shabir id: 2D25E1F6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Barzanjeh orcid: 0000-0003-0415-1423 citation: ama: 'Xuereb A, Aquilina M, Barzanjeh S. Routing thermal noise through quantum networks. In: Andrews DL, Ostendorf A, Bain AJ, Nunzi JM, eds. Vol 10672. SPIE; 2018. doi:10.1117/12.2309928' apa: 'Xuereb, A., Aquilina, M., & Barzanjeh, S. (2018). Routing thermal noise through quantum networks. In D. L. Andrews, A. Ostendorf, A. J. Bain, & J. M. Nunzi (Eds.) (Vol. 10672). Presented at the SPIE: The international society for optical engineering, Strasbourg, France: SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309928' chicago: Xuereb, André, Matteo Aquilina, and Shabir Barzanjeh. “Routing Thermal Noise through Quantum Networks.” edited by D L Andrews, A Ostendorf, A J Bain, and J M Nunzi, Vol. 10672. SPIE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309928. ieee: 'A. Xuereb, M. Aquilina, and S. Barzanjeh, “Routing thermal noise through quantum networks,” presented at the SPIE: The international society for optical engineering, Strasbourg, France, 2018, vol. 10672.' ista: 'Xuereb A, Aquilina M, Barzanjeh S. 2018. Routing thermal noise through quantum networks. SPIE: The international society for optical engineering, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 10672, 106721N.' mla: Xuereb, André, et al. Routing Thermal Noise through Quantum Networks. Edited by D L Andrews et al., vol. 10672, 106721N, SPIE, 2018, doi:10.1117/12.2309928. short: A. Xuereb, M. Aquilina, S. Barzanjeh, in:, D.L. Andrews, A. Ostendorf, A.J. Bain, J.M. Nunzi (Eds.), SPIE, 2018. conference: end_date: 2018-04-26 location: Strasbourg, France name: 'SPIE: The international society for optical engineering' start_date: 2018-04-22 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:55Z date_published: 2018-05-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-18T08:12:24Z day: '04' department: - _id: JoFi doi: 10.1117/12.2309928 editor: - first_name: D L full_name: Andrews, D L last_name: Andrews - first_name: A full_name: Ostendorf, A last_name: Ostendorf - first_name: A J full_name: Bain, A J last_name: Bain - first_name: J M full_name: Nunzi, J M last_name: Nunzi external_id: arxiv: - '1806.01000' isi: - '000453298500019' intvolume: ' 10672' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01000 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication_status: published publisher: SPIE publist_id: '7766' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Routing thermal noise through quantum networks type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10672 year: '2018' ...