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SCIENCE
Volume 346, Issue 6206, Pages 207-211Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1257219
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- Swedish Research Council (VR)
- Wallenberg Foundation
- European Union through the European Research Council
- Scalable Superconducting Processors for Entangled Quantum Information Technology project
- Wenner-Gren Foundations
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Quantum information can be stored in micromechanical resonators, encoded as quanta of vibration known as phonons. The vibrational motion is then restricted to the stationary eigenmodes of the resonator, which thus serves as local storage for phonons. In contrast, we couple propagating phonons to an artificial atom in the quantum regime and reproduce findings from quantum optics, with sound taking over the role of light. Our results highlight the similarities between phonons and photons but also point to new opportunities arising from the characteristic features of quantum mechanical sound. The low propagation speed of phonons should enable new dynamic schemes for processing quantum information, and the short wavelength allows regimes of atomic physics to be explored that cannot be reached in photonic systems.
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