Speaker: Oskar Painter, California Institute of Technology
In this talk I will discuss work over the last decade and a half to engineer synthetic opto-mechanical and electro-mechanical devices that strongly couple mechanical degrees of motion to electromagnetic ones. I will highlight current work to develop quantum transducers based on integrated opto- and electro-mechanical nanoscale devices, and recent experiments building towards remote entanglement of electrical quantum systems over an optical channel. I will also discuss how similar concepts can be used to manipulate through nanoscale engineering the acoustic properties of materials, and how the influence of the changed acoustic properties of a material can have a profound affect on the quantum sources of noise within a material host.