Nanomechanics with photons and electrons.

 

The lectures give introduction and foundations to the rapidly evolving field of nanomechanics.

 

Detection and actuation of nanomechanical systems is a challenge that is delivering already ultrasensitive quantum-limited detectors, quantum memories or buses, and answers to fundamentalquestions related to quantum decoherence.

 

We will introduce input-output formalism and describe opto-mechanical detection and cooling. Single-electron tunneling in presence of Coulomb Blockade will then be described. It is at the basis of the most advanced systems that take advantage of the coupling of superconducting Q-bits to microwave cavities.