Publications related to Room temperature single photon emission from planar GaN/AlN quantum dot samples grown by MBE

Investigation of room-temperature single-photon emitters in GaN-based materials and GaN/AlN quantum dots

Over the past decade, quantum photonics platforms aiming at harnessing the fundamental properties of single particles, such as quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, have flourished. In this context, single-photon emitters capable of operating at ...

EPFL2024

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

Guanhao Huang

Quantum optics studies how photons interact with other forms of matter, the understanding of which was crucial for the development of quantum mechanics as a whole. Starting from the photoelectric effect, the quantum property of light has led to the develop ...

EPFL2024

Exciton migration in two-dimensional materials

Excitons play an essential role in the optical response of two-dimensional materials. These are bound states showing up in the band gaps of many-body systems and are conceived as quasiparticles formed by an electron and a hole. By performing real-time simu ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization

Cristiano Ciuti

Decay of a particle into more particles is a ubiquitous phenomenon to interacting quantum systems, taking place in colliders, nuclear reactors or solids. In a nonlinear medium, even a single photon would decay by down-converting (splitting) into lower-freq ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

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

Single molecule fluorescence and phosphorescence studies using a scanning tunneling microscope

Abhishek Grewal

This thesis investigates novel single-molecule luminescence phenomena at their inherent, sub-molecular length scale. The microscopic understanding of luminescence processes will be crucial for the continued improvement of organic optoelectronic and semicon ...

EPFL2022

Synthesis and properties of heterostructures in nanowires and 2-D materials

Akshay Balgarkashi

Modern solid-state devices were made possible by the discovery of semiconductor heterostructures. Heterostructures offer the ability to fabricate low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots which can restrain carriers in all three-directions. Quant ...

EPFL2022

Pixel super-resolution with spatially entangled photons

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

Pixelation is common in quantum imaging systems and limit the image spatial resolution. Here, the authors introduce a pixel super-resolution approach based on measuring the full spatially-resolved joint probability distribution of spatially-entangled photo ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Quantum information, communication, and sensing rely on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Free electrons coupled to photonics promise novel hybrid quantum technologies, although single-particle correlat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022

Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators

Pasquale Scarlino, Marco Scigliuzzo

Engineering the electromagnetic environment of a quantum emitter gives rise to a plethora of exotic light -matter interactions. In particular, photonic lattices can seed long-lived atom-photon bound states inside photonic band gaps. Here, we report on the ...

American Physical Society2022

Ultrafast carrier and quasiparticle dynamics in strongly confined perovskite nanoplatelets

Etienne Christophe Socie

Over the past decade, lead halide perovskites (LHPs) have received considerable attention thanks to their impressive optoelectronic properties. Today, LHP-based devices are one of the most efficient single-junction solar cells, with power-conversion effici ...

EPFL2022

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with strongly correlated fermions

Kevin Etienne Robert Roux

This thesis presents the first cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments performed with a degenerate gas of

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Li with strong atom-atom interactions. The first part of this manuscript describes the design and the building of the apparatus that has been e ...

EPFL2022

Plasmonic nanobar-on-mirror antenna with giant local chirality: a new platform for ultrafast chiral single-photon emission

Wen Chen, Kai Wang

Providing an additional degree of freedom for binary information encoding and nonreciprocal information transmission, chiral single photons have become a new research frontier in quantum optics. Without using complex external conditions (e.g., magnetic fie ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

n-photon blockade with an n-photon parametric drive

Fabrizio Minganti, Wei Qin

We propose a mechanism to engineer an n-photon blockade in a nonlinear cavity with an n-photon parametric drive lambda(adagger n + an). When an n-photon-excitation resonance condition is satisfied, the presence of n photons in the cavity suppress ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Yujia Yang

Integrated photonics facilitates extensive control over fundamental light-matter interactions in manifold quantum systems including atoms(1), trapped ions(2,3), quantum dots(4) and defect centres(5). Ultrafast electron microscopy has recently made free-ele ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Resolving the Controversy in Biexciton Binding Energy of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals through Heralded Single-Particle Spectroscopy

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

Understanding exciton-exciton interaction in multiply excited nanocrystals is crucial to their utilization as functional materials. Yet, for lead halide perovskite nanocryst-als, which are promising candidates for nanocrystal-based technologies, numerous c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Full-field quantum imaging with a single-photon avalanche diode camera

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are essential tools in biophotonics, optical ranging and sensing, and quantum optics. However, their small number of pixels, low quantum efficiency, and small fill factor have so far hindered their use for practi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical refocusin ...

2021

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Dark-level trapping, lateral confinement, and built-in electric field contributions to the carrier dynamics in c-plane GaN/AlN quantum dots emitting in the UV range

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Sebastian Pascal Tamariz Kaufmann

c-plane GaN/AlN quantum dots (QDs) are promising zero-dimensional quantum nanostructures that exhibit single photon emission properties up to room temperature and even above. In this context, it is of prime interest to gain a deeper insight into the recomb ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021