Probing the limits of quantum mechanics and gravity with micromechanical oscillators

Project Information

GUANTUM

Grant agreement ID: 101019712

DOI

10.3030/101019712

EC signature date 10 May 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 033,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 033,00

Coordinated by

AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR
Finland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Fast Feedback Control of Mechanical Motion Using Circuit Optomechanics

Author(s): Wang, Cheng; Banniard, Louise; de Lépinay, Laure Mercier; Sillanpää, Mika A.
Published in: Phys. Rev. Applied, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.19.054091

Progress Toward Detection of Individual TLS in Nanomechanical Resonators

Author(s): Pedurand, Richard; Golokolenov, Ilya; Sillanpää, Mika; de Lépinay, Laure Mercier; Collin, Eddy; Fefferman, Andrew
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-024-03072-7

Quantum backaction evading measurements of a silicon nitride membrane resonator

Author(s): Yulong Liu, Jingwei Zhou, Laure Mercier de Lépinay and Mika A Sillanpää
Published in: New Journal of Physics, 2022, Page(s) 083043, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac88ef

Coupling high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonators via superconducting qubits

Author(s): Wayne Crump, Alpo Välimaa, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 123, 2023, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0166924

Optomechanics Driven by Noisy and Narrowband Fields

Author(s): Louise Banniard, Cheng Wang, Davide Stirpe, Kjetil Børkje, Francesco Massel, Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2024, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-024-03220-z

Strong actuation of mass-loaded membranes for gravity studies at the milligram scale

Author(s): Joe Depellette, Ewa Rej, Richa Cutting, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 139, 2026, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0318944

Near-ground-state cooling in electromechanics using measurement-based feedback and a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier

Author(s): Ewa Rej, Richa Cutting, Joe Depellette, Debopam Datta, Nils Tiencken, Joonas Govenius, Visa Vesterinen, Yulong Liu, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.23.034009

Amplitude noise cancellation of microwave tones

Author(s): Joe Depellette, Ewa Rej, Matthew Herbst, Richa Cutting, Yulong Liu, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Review of Scientific Instruments, Issue 96, 2025, ISSN 0034-6748
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0283567

Ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator by a noisy environment

Author(s): Cheng Wang, Louise Banniard, Kjetil Børkje, Francesco Massel, Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Mika A. Sillanpää
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51645-7

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

Author(s): Yulong Liu, Huanying Sun, Qichun Liu, Haihua Wu, Mika A. Sillanpää, Tiefu Li
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56497-3