A Qubit-Coupled Nanomechanical Resonator Integrated with a Superconducting CPW Cavity

In this work we discuss some of our first results integrating a qubit-coupled nanomechanical resonator with a superconducting transmission line resonator. This hybrid circuit QED system is composed of a capacitively-coupled superconducting charge-type qubit and UHF-range flexural nanoresonator, which are both embedded within a superconducting niobium coplanar waveguide (CPW) cavity. Phase-sensitive transmission measurements of the CPW cavity are used to spectroscopically probe the qubit-coupled nanoresonator via the qubit-state-dependent dispersive shift of the cavity frequency. We will discuss the design and measurement of the latest generation of these devices and the prospects for using this system to read-out the number-states statistics of a nanomechanical resonator at low thermal occupancy.