Degeneracy-breaking and long-lived multimode microwave electromechanical systems enabled by cubic silicon-carbide membrane crystals

Yulong Liu (), Huanying Sun, Qichun Liu, Haihua Wu, Mika A. Sillanpää and Tiefu Li ()
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Yulong Liu: Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Huanying Sun: Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Qichun Liu: Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Haihua Wu: Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences
Mika A. Sillanpää: Aalto University
Tiefu Li: Tsinghua University

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: Abstract Cubic silicon-carbide crystals (3C-SiC), known for their high thermal conductivity and in-plane stress, hold significant promise for the development of high-quality (Q) mechanical oscillators. We reveal degeneracy-breaking phenomena in 3C-phase crystalline silicon-carbide membrane and present high-Q mechanical modes in pairs or clusters. The 3C-SiC material demonstrates excellent microwave compatibility with superconducting circuits. Thus, we can establish a coherent electromechanical interface, enabling precise control over 21 high-Q mechanical modes from a single 3C-SiC square membrane. Benefiting from extremely high mechanical frequency stability, this interface enables tunable light slowing with group delays extending up to an impressive duration of an hour. Coherent energy transfer between distinct mechanical modes are also presented. In this work, the studied 3C-SiC membrane crystal with their significant properties of multiple acoustic modes and high-quality factors, provide unique opportunities for the encoding, storage, and transmission of quantum information via bosonic phonon channels.

Date: 2025
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