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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
Charles George Tahan, McLean, VA (US);
Rousko Todorov Hristov, College Park, MD (US);
Oney O. Soykal, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Charles George Tahan, McLean, VA (US);
Rousko Todorov Hristov, College Park, MD (US);
Oney O. Soykal, Silver Spring, MD (US);
University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Director, National Security Agency, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
An artificial composite object combines a quantum of sound with a matter excitation. A phonon in a confinement structure containing the matter excites it from an initial state to an excited state corresponding to a frequency of the phonon. Relaxation of the matter back to the initial state emits a phonon of the same frequency into the confinement structure. The phonon confinement structure, for example, a cavity, traps the emitted phonon thereby allowing further excitation of the matter. The coupling between the phonon and the matter results in a quantum quasi-particle referred to as a phoniton. The phoniton can find application in a wide variety of quantum systems such as signal processing and communications devices, imaging and sensing, and information processing.