Quantum technologies with optically interfaced solid-state spins

DD Awschalom, R Hanson, J Wrachtrup, BB Zhou - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Spins of impurities in solids provide a unique architecture to realize quantum technologies.
A quantum register of electron and nearby nuclear spins in the lattice encompasses high …

Hybrid quantum systems based on magnonics

D Lachance-Quirion, Y Tabuchi, A Gloppe… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Engineered quantum systems enabling novel capabilities for computation and sensing have
blossomed in the last decade. Architectures benefiting from combining complementary …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum networks based on color centers in diamond

M Ruf, NH Wan, H Choi, D Englund… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
With the ability to transfer and process quantum information, large-scale quantum networks
will enable a suite of fundamentally new applications, from quantum communications to …

Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …

Ab initio theory of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

Á Gali - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state defect qubit with favorable
coherence time up to room temperature, which could be harnessed in several quantum …

One-second coherence for a single electron spin coupled to a multi-qubit nuclear-spin environment

MH Abobeih, J Cramer, MA Bakker, N Kalb… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Single electron spins coupled to multiple nuclear spins provide promising multi-qubit
registers for quantum sensing and quantum networks. The obtainable level of control is …

Nitrogen in diamond

MNR Ashfold, JP Goss, BL Green, PW May… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen is ubiquitous in both natural and laboratory-grown diamond, but the number and
nature of the nitrogen-containing defects can have a profound effect on the diamond …

Detecting spins by their fluorescence with a microwave photon counter

E Albertinale, L Balembois, E Billaud, V Ranjan… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum emitters respond to resonant illumination by radiating part of the absorbed energy.
A component of this radiation field is phase coherent with the driving tone, whereas another …

Superradiant emission from colour centres in diamond

A Angerer, K Streltsov, T Astner, S Putz, H Sumiya… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Superradiance is a fundamental collective effect where radiation is amplified by the
coherence of multiple emitters. Superradiance plays a prominent role in optics (where it …

How do phonons relax molecular spins?

A Lunghi, S Sanvito - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
The coupling between electronic spins and lattice vibrations is fundamental for driving
relaxation in magnetic materials. The debate over the nature of spin-phonon coupling dates …