Publications by Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Giant Purcell Broadening and Lamb Shift for DNA-Assembled Near-Infrared Quantum Emitters

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

Controlling the light emitted by individual molecules is instrumental to a number of advanced nanotechnologies ranging from super-resolution bioimaging and molecular sensing to quantum nanophotonics. Molecular emission can be tailored by modifying the loca ...

2025

Photon antibunching in single-molecule vibrational sum-frequency generation

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) enables the coherent upconversion of electromagnetic signals and plays a significant role in mid-infrared vibrational spectroscopy for molecular analysis. Recent research indicates that plasmonic nanocavities, which confine l ...

2025

Micro- and nanofabrication techniques for single crystal diamond photonics

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Synthetically grown high-quality single crystal diamond is an excellent base material for quantum photonics. Planar single crystal diamond substrates several square millimeters in size are nowadays commercially available. They can be precisely structured u ...

Elsevier2025

Data and code associated with the paper 'How to use the dispersion in the χ(3) tensor for broadband generation of polarization-entangled photons'

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Valeria Vento

Data and code associated with the following paper V. Vento, et al., Phys. Rev. Res. (2025) A thorough explanation of the experiment performed is available there. The name of each sub-folder and file in S-AS_chi3_code.zip indicates the corresponding figure ...

Zenodo2025

Fiber-Coupled Absorption-based Quantum Sensing with Nitrogen Vacancy Ensembles in a Suspended Diamond Photonic Cavity

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Amirali Arabmoheghi

Low photon extraction efficiency limits the optical spin readout fidelity in emerging quantum sensing technologies in diamond. Here, we propose and fabricate integrated diamond nanoprobes based on cavity-enhanced IR absorption of embedded Nitrogen Vacancy ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Low-loss and high-index contrast ultraviolet-C free-standing waveguides made of thermal silicon oxide

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Photonics in the ultraviolet provides an avenue for key advances in biosensing, pharmaceutical research, and environmental sensing. However, despite recent progress in photonic integration, a technological solution to fabricate photonic integrated circuits ...

2024

Light Emission and Conductance Fluctuations in Electrically Driven and Plasmonically Enhanced Molecular Junctions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Wen Chen, Konstantin Malchow

Electrically connected and plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions combine the optical functionalities of high field confinement and enhancement (cavity function), and of high radiative efficiency (antenna function) with the electrical functionalities o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Nanocavities for Molecular Optomechanics: Their Fundamental Description and Applications

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Vibrational Raman scattering-a process where light exchanges energy with a molecular vibration through inelastic scattering-is most fundamentally described in a quantum framework where both light and vibration are quantized. When the Raman scatterer is emb ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2024

Integrated coplanar waveguide coil on diamond for enhanced homogeneous broadband NV magnetometry

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Hossein Babashah, Elena Losero

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as promising quantum sensors due to their highly coherent and optically addressable spin states with potential applications in high-sensitivity magnetometry. Homogeneously addressing large ensembles of ...

2024

Creation of NV Centers in Diamond under 155 MeV Electron Irradiation

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Hossein Babashah, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Elena Losero

Single-crystal diamond substrates presenting a high concentration of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV-) are on high demand for the development of optically pumped solid-state sensors such as magnetometers, thermometers, or electrometers. Whi ...

WILEY2023

Data and code associated with the paper 'Mode-Specific Coupling of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Cavities with Cylindrical Vector Beams'

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Valeria Vento

Data and code associated with the following paper: V. Vento et al, Nano Lett. 2023 A thorough explanation of the experiment performed is available there. The name of each sub-folder and file in Maps_data_code.zip indicates the correspondin ...

Zenodo2023

Measurement-induced collective vibrational quantum coherence under spontaneous Raman scattering in a liquid

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Santiago Tarrago Velez, Anna Pogrebna, Valeria Vento

Spontaneous Raman scattering is classically understood as an incoherent process. Here, the authors demonstrate that macroscopic quantum coherence among billions of vibrating molecules in a liquid is generated when single photon detection and single spatio- ...

Nature Research2023

Mode-Specific Coupling of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Cavities with Cylindrical Vector Beams

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Valeria Vento

Nanocavities formed by ultrathin metallic gaps permitthe reproducibleengineering and enhancement of light-matter interaction, withmode volumes reaching the smallest values allowed by quantum mechanics.While the enhanced vacuum field in metallic nanogaps ha ...

2023

Data and code associated with the paper 'Measurement-induced collective vibrational quantum coherence under spontaneous Raman scattering in a liquid'

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Santiago Tarrago Velez, Anna Pogrebna, Valeria Vento

Data and code associated with the following paper V. Vento, S. Tarrago-Velez et al., Nat. Commun. (2023) A thorough explanation of the experiment performed is available there. The name of each sub-folder and file in CS2_data_code.zip indic ...

Zenodo2023

Microscopic origin of polarization-entangled Stokes-anti-Stokes photons in diamond

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Time-correlated Stokes-anti-Stokes (SaS) scattering has been studied in different transparent media, more frequently in diamond. While the nonclassical nature of the SaS scattered photons has been well established, the presence of entanglement in this spon ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Neuronal growth on high-aspect-ratio diamond nanopillar arrays for biosensing applications

Niels Quack, Hilal Lashuel, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli, Somanath Jagannath, Hossein Babashah, Elena Losero

Monitoring neuronal activity with simultaneously high spatial and temporal resolution in living cell cultures is crucial to advance understanding of the development and functioning of our brain, and to gain further insights in the origin of brain disorders ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Optically detected magnetic resonance with an open source platform

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Hossein Babashah, Hoda Shirzad, Mayeul Sylvain Chipaux, Elena Losero

Localized electronic spins in solid-state environments form versatile and robust platforms for quantum sensing, metrology and quantum information processing. With optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR), it is possible to prepare and readout highly co ...

Scipost Foundation2023

Molecular Vibration Explorer: an Online Database and Toolbox for Surface-Enhanced Frequency Conversion and Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

We present Molecular Vibration Explorer, a freely accessible online database and interactive tool for exploring vibrational spectra and tensorial lightvibration coupling strengths of a large collection of thiolated molecules. The "Gold" version of the data ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Experimental QND measurements of complementarity on two-qubit states with IonQ and IBM Q quantum computers

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Nicolas Schwaller, Valeria Vento

We report the experimental nondemolition measurement of coherence, predictability and concurrence on a system of two qubits. The quantum circuits proposed by De Melo et al. (Phys Rev Lett 98(25):250501, 2007) are implemented on IBM Q (superconducting circu ...

SPRINGER2022

Assessment of the Bundle SNSPD Plus FPGA-Based TDC for High-Performance Time Measurements

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Andrea Costa, Santiago Tarrago Velez

Counting single photons and measuring their arrival time is of crucial importance for imaging and quantum applications that use single photons to outperform classical techniques. The investigation of the coincidence, i.e. correlation, between photons can b ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022