Nanomechanical resonators with ultra-high-$Q$ perimeter modes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03615v2
• Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:43:16 GMT
• Title: Nanomechanical resonators with ultra-high-$Q$ perimeter modes
• Authors: Mohammad. J. Bereyhi, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Sergey A. Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Guanhao Huang, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Nils J. Engelsen
• Abstract summary: A new approach to soft clamping exploits vibrations in the perimeter of polygon-shaped resonators tethered at their vertices. Perimeter modes reach $Q$ of 3.6 billion at room temperature while spanning only two acoustic wavelengths. Our devices make them well-suited for near-field integration with microcavities for quantum optomechanical experiments.
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• Abstract: Systems with low mechanical dissipation are extensively used in precision measurements such as gravitational wave detection, atomic force microscopy and quantum control of mechanical oscillators via opto- and electromechanics. The mechanical quality factor ($Q$) of these systems determines the thermomechanical force noise and the thermal decoherence rate of mechanical quantum states. While the dissipation rate is typically set by the bulk acoustic properties of the material, by exploiting dissipation dilution, mechanical $Q$ can be engineered through geometry and increased by many orders of magnitude. Recently, soft clamping in combination with strain engineering has enabled room temperature quality factors approaching one billion ($10^9$) in millimeter-scale resonators. Here we demonstrate a new approach to soft clamping which exploits vibrations in the perimeter of polygon-shaped resonators tethered at their vertices. In contrast to previous approaches, which rely on cascaded elements to achieve soft clamping, perimeter modes are soft clamped due to symmetry and the boundary conditions at the polygon vertices. Perimeter modes reach $Q$ of 3.6 billion at room temperature while spanning only two acoustic wavelengths -- a 4-fold improvement over the state-of-the-art mechanical $Q$ with 10-fold smaller devices. The small size of our devices makes them well-suited for near-field integration with microcavities for quantum optomechanical experiments. Moreover, their compactness allows the realization of phononic lattices. We demonstrate a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain of high-$Q$ perimeter modes coupled via nearest-neighbour interaction and characterize the localized edge modes.

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