A research group led by Professor Yasunobu Nakamura (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology) and Associate Professor Atsushi Noguchi (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) has achieved a result that could lead to the realization of a new resonator optomechanics that enables the control of sound waves by the radiation pressure of a single microwave photon. By exploiting the properties of superconducting circuits, they have succeeded in creating a huge radiation pressure in the electromagnetic wave stored in the superconducting resonator. The combination of this new technology and the quantum control of microwaves by superconducting quantum circuits will enable quantum control of sound waves and other physical systems, and is expected to be useful for quantum computing and quantum networking, such as quantum memory and quantum repeaters.
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