Publications by Nathan Rafaël Bernier

HCGA: Highly comparative graph analysis for network phenotyping

Networks are widely used as mathematical models of complex systems across many scientific disciplines. Decades of work have produced a vast corpus of research characterizing the topological, combinatorial, statistical, and spectral properties of graphs. Ea ...

ELSEVIER2021

A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Amir Youssefi, Anton Lukashchuk

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the superconducting circuitry and the room-temperature environment. Compared with electrical c ...

2021

Multimode microwave circuit optomechanics as a platform to study coupled quantum harmonic oscillators

Nathan Rafaël Bernier

Harmonic oscillators might be one of the most fundamental entities described by physics. Yet they stay relevant in recent research. The topological properties associated with exceptional points that can occur when two modes interact have generated much int ...

EPFL2019

Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Directional amplifiers are an important resource in quantum-information processing, as they protect sensitive quantum systems from excess noise. Here, we propose an implementation of phase-preserving and phase-sensitive directional amplifiers for microwave ...

2018

A maser based on dynamical backaction on microwave light

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

2018

Level attraction in a microwave optomechanical circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

2018

Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Marie Adrienne Ioannou, László Dániel Tóth, Akshay Koottandavida

Nonreciprocal devices, such as isolators, are required to protect sensitive superconducting quantum circuits. Growing research has focused on integrated alternatives to the existing bulky ferrite technologies. Here we realize a nonreciprocal isolator with ...

IEEE2018

Nonreciprocity in Microwave Optomechanical Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Nonreciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators are necessary to protect sensitive apparatus from unwanted noise. Recently, a variety of alternatives were proposed to replace ferrite-based commercial technologies, with the motivation to be integrat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Marie Adrienne Ioannou, László Dániel Tóth, Akshay Koottandavida

Devices that achieve nonreciprocal microwave transmission are ubiquitous in radar and radio-frequency communication systems, and commonly rely on magnetically biased ferrite materials. Such devices are also indispensable in the readout chains of supercondu ...

Nature Research2017

A dissipative quantum reservoir for microwave light using a mechanical oscillator

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Isolation of a system from its environment is often desirable, from precision measurements to control of individual quantum systems; however, dissipation can also be a useful resource. Remarkably, engineered dissipation enables the preparation of quantum s ...

2017

Unstable Avoided Crossing in Coupled Spinor Condensates

Nathan Rafaël Bernier

We consider the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate with two internal states, coupled through a coherent drive. We focus on a specific quench protocol, in which the sign of the coupling field is suddenly changed. At a mean-field level, the system is tra ...

Amer Physical Soc2014