• Developing an approach and theoretical framework to perform precision position measurement in the nonlinear regime of cavity quantum optomechanics
  [arXiv:2207.11153 (2022)].
• Proposing how to generate and verify opto-mechanical entanglement using pulsed optomechanics
  [New Journal of Physics 22, 063001 (2020)].
• Experimentally generating interference fringes in the motion of a mechanical resonator by projection onto an optical NOON state [New Journal of Physics 20, 053042 (2018)], studying how these operations can be used to grow large single-mode mechanical superposition states [Quantum Science and Technology 4, 014003 (2019)], and exploring how such measurement-based techniques can be used to create two-mode Schrodinger-cat states [Quantum Science and Technology 7, 035012 (2022)].
• Proposing how to perform phonon addition and substraction to a mechanical oscillator using single photon counting
  [Physical Review Letters 110, 010504 (2013)],
  and utilising such operations in combination with mechanical position measurements for quantum state engineering
  [Physical Review A 93, 053818 (2016)].
• Experimentally performing mechanical position-squared measurements [Nature Communications 7, 10988 (2016)],
  based on exploiting the optical non-linearity of the radiation-pressure interaction [Physical Review X 1, 021011 (2011)].
• Proposing a pulsed approach for mechanical cooling and squeezing by measurement, as well as mechanical state tomography [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 16182 (2011)]. We experimentally demonstrated this technique with a cantilever in an initial thermal state and achieved 36 dB of thermal noise squeezing [Nature Communications 4, 2295 (2013)].

Using Brillouin scattering provides a promising new avenue to pursue quantum optomechanics. Some of our recent work in this area includes:

• Performing the first experimental demonstration of Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling to high frequency phonons [Optica 6, 7 (2019)].
• Experimentally performing single-phonon addition or subtraction to a mechanical thermal state via Brillouin scattering [Physical Review Letters 126, 033601 (2021)].
• Advancing the state-of-the-art for optics-based mechanical state tomography and observing non-Gaussianity generated via single- and multi-phonon subtraction to a small thermal state [Physical Review Letters 127, 243601 (2021)].

How does gravity affect quantum states of massive objects? Can we find experimental signatures that help light the path to a theory of quantum gravity? Our team is motivated by these, and related, questions and uses quantum optomechanics as an experimental test-bed to search for potential quantum-gravitational phenomena. Some of our recent work in this area includes:

• Developing a scheme how to probe quantum-gravity-induced deformations to the canonical commutator between position and momentum (test the generalized uncertainty principle, GUP)
  [Nature Physics 8, 393 (2012)].
• Proposing a technique to amplify the signal-to-noise ratio of our commutator-probing scheme using an extended pulse sequence
  [Physical Review A 96, 023849 (2017)].
• Studying and contrasting the predictions made by classical and quantum physics for optomechanical protocols using closed loops in phase-space (geometric phases)
  [Physical Review A 93, 063862 (2016)].

Hybrid quantum systems combine the functionalities of two or more experimental systems in order to best utilize the advantages that each system affords or for quantum transduction/networking applications. Some of our recent work in this area includes:

• Introducing the "displacemon" electromechanical architecture that magnetic-flux couples a vibrating nanobeam to a superconducting qubit
  [Physical Review X 8, 021052 (2018)].
• Utilizing the "displacemon" architecture as a means to test for objective collapse mechanisms
  [AVS Quantum Science 3, 045603 (2021)].
• Proposing a scheme that utilizes magnetic induction to couple a mechanical resonator to an electronic LC resonator
  [Physical Review B 97, 024109 (2018)].
• Developing an experimental proposal for a coherent microwave-to-optical interface using an opto-magneto-mechanical system
  [Scientific Reports 4, 5571 (2014)].

The quantum control of light is central to numerous experiments that aim to test the fundamentals of physics and develop new quantum technologies. We are pursuing both experiment and theory in quantum photonics and are interested in quantum sensing, simulation, and information applications. Some of our recent work in this area includes:

• Proposing how to generate arbitrary multi-qubit states of light [New Journal of Physics 18, 103020 (2016)].