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 wins the QCQT Excellence Award!
Nadia Antoniadis 31st March 2023Clemens 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!!
Spectrally stable nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond formed by carbon implantation into thin microstructures
Nadia Antoniadis 6th February 2023In 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 receives the Prix Schläfli 2022 and the Faculty Prize of the University of Basel!
Nadia Antoniadis 6th December 2022Natasha 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!!
Quantum interference of identical photons from remote GaAs quantum dots
Nadia Antoniadis 15th August 2022Recently 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
A chiral one-dimensional atom using a quantum dot in an open microcavity
Nadia Antoniadis 15th March 2022In 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,