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abstract:
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  text: Practical quantum networks require low-loss and noise-resilient optical interconnects
    as well as non-Gaussian resources for entanglement distillation and distributed
    quantum computation. The latter could be provided by superconducting circuits
    but existing solutions to interface the microwave and optical domains lack either
    scalability or efficiency, and in most cases the conversion noise is not known.
    In this work we utilize the unique opportunities of silicon photonics, cavity
    optomechanics and superconducting circuits to demonstrate a fully integrated,
    coherent transducer interfacing the microwave X and the telecom S bands with a
    total (internal) bidirectional transduction efficiency of 1.2% (135%) at millikelvin
    temperatures. The coupling relies solely on the radiation pressure interaction
    mediated by the femtometer-scale motion of two silicon nanobeams reaching a <jats:italic>V</jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>π</jats:italic></jats:sub>
    as low as 16 μV for sub-nanowatt pump powers. Without the associated optomechanical
    gain, we achieve a total (internal) pure conversion efficiency of up to 0.019%
    (1.6%), relevant for future noise-free operation on this qubit-compatible platform.
acknowledged_ssus:
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acknowledgement: We thank Yuan Chen for performing supplementary FEM simulations and
  Andrew Higginbotham, Ralf Riedinger, Sungkun Hong, and Lorenzo Magrini for valuable
  discussions. This work was supported by IST Austria, the IST nanofabrication facility
  (NFF), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant
  agreement no. 732894 (FET Proactive HOT) and the European Research Council under
  grant agreement no. 758053 (ERC StG QUNNECT). G.A. is the recipient of a DOC fellowship
  of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at IST Austria. W.H. is the recipient of an
  ISTplus postdoctoral fellowship with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
  research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement
  no. 754411. J.M.F. acknowledges support from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through
  BeyondC (F71), a NOMIS foundation research grant, and the EU’s Horizon 2020 research
  and innovation program under grant agreement no. 862644 (FET Open QUARTET).
article_number: '4460'
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author:
- first_name: Georg M
  full_name: Arnold, Georg M
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  last_name: Arnold
  orcid: 0000-0003-1397-7876
- first_name: Matthias
  full_name: Wulf, Matthias
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  last_name: Wulf
  orcid: 0000-0001-6613-1378
- first_name: Shabir
  full_name: Barzanjeh, Shabir
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  last_name: Barzanjeh
  orcid: 0000-0003-0415-1423
- first_name: Elena
  full_name: Redchenko, Elena
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  last_name: Redchenko
- first_name: Alfredo R
  full_name: Rueda Sanchez, Alfredo R
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  last_name: Rueda Sanchez
  orcid: 0000-0001-6249-5860
- first_name: William J
  full_name: Hease, William J
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  last_name: Hease
  orcid: 0000-0001-9868-2166
- first_name: Farid
  full_name: Hassani, Farid
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  last_name: Hassani
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- first_name: Johannes M
  full_name: Fink, Johannes M
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  last_name: Fink
  orcid: 0000-0001-8112-028X
citation:
  ama: Arnold GM, Wulf M, Barzanjeh S, et al. Converting microwave and telecom photons
    with a silicon photonic nanomechanical interface. <i>Nature Communications</i>.
    2020;11. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z">10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z</a>
  apa: Arnold, G. M., Wulf, M., Barzanjeh, S., Redchenko, E., Rueda Sanchez, A. R.,
    Hease, W. J., … Fink, J. M. (2020). Converting microwave and telecom photons with
    a silicon photonic nanomechanical interface. <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer
    Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z</a>
  chicago: Arnold, Georg M, Matthias Wulf, Shabir Barzanjeh, Elena Redchenko, Alfredo
    R Rueda Sanchez, William J Hease, Farid Hassani, and Johannes M Fink. “Converting
    Microwave and Telecom Photons with a Silicon Photonic Nanomechanical Interface.”
    <i>Nature Communications</i>. Springer Nature, 2020. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z</a>.
  ieee: G. M. Arnold <i>et al.</i>, “Converting microwave and telecom photons with
    a silicon photonic nanomechanical interface,” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol.
    11. Springer Nature, 2020.
  ista: Arnold GM, Wulf M, Barzanjeh S, Redchenko E, Rueda Sanchez AR, Hease WJ, Hassani
    F, Fink JM. 2020. Converting microwave and telecom photons with a silicon photonic
    nanomechanical interface. Nature Communications. 11, 4460.
  mla: Arnold, Georg M., et al. “Converting Microwave and Telecom Photons with a Silicon
    Photonic Nanomechanical Interface.” <i>Nature Communications</i>, vol. 11, 4460,
    Springer Nature, 2020, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z">10.1038/s41467-020-18269-z</a>.
  short: G.M. Arnold, M. Wulf, S. Barzanjeh, E. Redchenko, A.R. Rueda Sanchez, W.J.
    Hease, F. Hassani, J.M. Fink, Nature Communications 11 (2020).
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2020-09-18T10:56:20Z
date_published: 2020-09-08T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-05-20T22:31:22Z
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