Nam Nguyen and Nadia Antoniadis both receive the QCQT Excellence Award 2023. Nam got it in recognition of his outstanding work in the publications “Enhanced Electron-Spin Coherence in a GaAs Quantum Emitter” published in PRL and “Quantum interference of identical photons from remote GaAs quantum dots” published in Nat. Nanotechnol. Nadia got the price for
Andrea Corazza receives two poster awards: the 2023 MRS Fall Meeting Best Poster Award and the EL14 Diamond Electronics, Devices and Sensors Best Poster Award 2023 for the poster “Diamond defects: a Gateway to Spin-Photon Interfaces”. Congratulations!
In our recent publication in Physical Review Letters, we increased the coherence of an electron spin in a GaAs quantum dot to over half a microsecond. This 150-fold improvement is achieved by using the interaction of electron spins and nuclear spins to cool the spin system. More information can be found on the SNI news.
Our latest results on ultra-fast cavity-enhanced single-shot readout of a quantum dot electron spin in 3 nanoseconds have been published in Nature Communications.
In our recent publication in Nature Physics, we directly observe a photon number dependent time-delay upon scattering of a laser pulse. This is a fingerprint of simulated emission at the level of a few photons. More information can be found in the Uni news.
Simon Geyer is selected as APS Distinguished Student (DS) for outstanding non-US young researchers. He received his prize at the APS March meeting 2023. Congratulations!!
Clemens Spinnler receives a QCQT 2022 Excellence Award in recognition of his outstanding work to “Optically driving the radiative Auger transition”, published in Nature Comm. and “Quantum interference of identical photons from remote GaAs quantum dots” published in Nature Nano. Congratulations!!
In our most recent manuscript, published in Applied Physics Letter, we present an improved method for the creation of narrow-linewidth nitrogen-vacancy centers (NVs) in microstructured diamond. NVs are known for their exceptional spin coherence and convenience in optical spin initialization and readout, and are increasingly used both as a quantum sensor and as a building
Natasha Tomm has received two awards for her PhD thesis “A quantum dot in a microcavity as a bright source of coherent single photons” this year! The first prize was the Prix Schläfli in Physics 2022, awarded by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT). The Prix Schläfli is one of the oldest prizes in Switzerland and
In our recent publication in Physical Review Letters, we experimentally and theoretically study exciton-exciton couplings in a two-dimensional semiconductor, homobilayer MoS2. More information can be found in the SNI news or in this short explanation video.
Simon Geyer was recognized with the Swiss Nanotechnology PhD award sponsored by the IBM Research Zürich for the publication “A hole spin qubit in a fin field-effect transistor above 4 kelvin”. Congratulations!!
Recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, we demonstrate quantum interference between single photons from separate quantum dots. Such a demonstration has been attempted multiple times in the past decade and appeared challenging. The problem is the noise: the noise affects the photon creation process of different quantum dots in different ways. Thus, single photons created by
In our recent publication in npj Quantum Information we have demonstrated a chiral one-dimensional atom using a single semiconductor quantum dot in a tunable microcavity. In a chiral atom, photons propagating in one direction interact with the atom, while photons propagating in the other direction do not. Here, we achieve strong non-reciprocal absorption of single-photons,