• 文献标题:   Coupling Graphene Mechanical Resonators to Superconducting Microwave Cavities
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WEBER P, GUTTINGER J, TSIOUTSIOS I, CHANG DE, BACHTOLD A
  • 作者关键词:   optomechanic, graphene, mechanical resonator, nems, cavity readout, duffing oscillator
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   ICFO Inst Ciencies Foton
  • 被引频次:   71
  • DOI:   10.1021/nl500879k
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is an attractive material for nanomechanical devices because it allows for exceptional properties, such as high frequencies, quality factors, and low mass. An outstanding challenge, however, has been to obtain large coupling between the motion and external systems for efficient readout and manipulation. Here, we report on a novel approach, in which we capacitively couple a high-Q graphene mechanical resonator (Q approximate to 10(5)) to a superconducting microwave cavity. The initial devices exhibit a large single-photon coupling of similar to 10 Hz. Remarkably, we can electrostatically change the graphene equilibrium position and thereby tune the single photon coupling, the mechanical resonance frequency, and the sign and magnitude of the observed Duffing nonlinearity. The strong tunability opens up new possibilities, such as the tuning of the optomechanical coupling strength on a time scale faster than the inverse of the cavity line width. With realistic improvements, it should be possible to enter the regime of quantum optomechanics.