Quantum nonreciprocality in quadratic optomechanics

Xunwei Xu; Yanjun Zhao; Hui Wang; Hui Jing; Aixi Chen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.8.000143

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 2, 143(2020)

Quantum nonreciprocality in quadratic optomechanics

Xunwei Xu^1、*, Yanjun Zhao², Hui Wang³, Hui Jing^4,6, and Aixi Chen^1,5,7

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Applied Physics, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China

²Faculty of Information Technology, College of Microelectronics, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

³Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

⁴Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Department of Physics and Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China

⁵Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China

⁶e-mail: jinghui73@foxmail.com

⁷e-mail: aixichen@zstu.edu.cn

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