A new approach to realizing quantum mechanical compression
Scheme of nonclassical mechanical states of a resonator-qubit combination. A transmon qubit capacitively couples to acoustic mechanical modes of a separate sapphire slab, one of which is shown as a series of blue and red antinodes. Nonclassical mechanical states emerge from this interaction. Three vignettes reproduce Wigner functions of i) a squeezed vibrational state, ii) … Read more