Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

C Toninelli, I Gerhardt, AS Clark, A Reserbat-Plantey… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Isolating single molecules in the solid state has allowed fundamental experiments in basic
and applied sciences. When cooled down to liquid helium temperature, certain molecules …

Mechanics of freely‐suspended ultrathin layered materials

A Castellanos‐Gomez, V Singh… - Annalen der …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The study of atomically thin two‐dimensional materials is a young and rapidly growing field.
In the past years, a great advance in the study of the remarkable electrical and optical …

Voltage-controlled quantum light from an atomically thin semiconductor

C Chakraborty, L Kinnischtzke, KM Goodfellow… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Although semiconductor defects can often be detrimental to device performance, they are
also responsible for the breadth of functionality exhibited by modern optoelectronic devices …

Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials

A Reserbat-Plantey, I Epstein, I Torre, AT Costa… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a
rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control …

Hybrid quantum device with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond coupled to carbon nanotubes

PB Li, ZL **ang, P Rabl, F Nori - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We show that nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond interfaced with a suspended
carbon nanotube carrying a dc current can facilitate a spin-nanomechanical hybrid device …

High Quality Factor Mechanical Resonators Based on WSe2 Monolayers

N Morell, A Reserbat-Plantey, I Tsioutsios… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Suspended monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are membranes that
combine ultralow mass and exceptional optical properties, making them intriguing materials …

Spin-mechanical scheme with color centers in hexagonal boron nitride membranes

M Abdi, MJ Hwang, M Aghtar, MB Plenio - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Recently observed quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) membranes have a
potential for achieving high accessibility and controllability thanks to the lower spatial …

Electrical control of lifetime-limited quantum emitters using 2D materials

KG Schadler, C Ciancico, S Pazzagli, P Lombardi… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solid-state quantum emitters are a mainstay of quantum nanophotonics as integrated single-
photon sources (SPS) and optical nanoprobes. Integrating such emitters with active …

Coherent characterisation of a single molecule in a photonic black box

S Boissier, RC Schofield, L **, A Ovvyan, S Nur… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Extinction spectroscopy is a powerful tool for demonstrating the coupling of a single
quantum emitter to a photonic structure. However, it can be challenging in all but the …

Electromechanical control of nitrogen-vacancy defect emission using graphene NEMS

A Reserbat-Plantey, KG Schädler, L Gaudreau… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite recent progress in nano-optomechanics, active control of optical fields at the
nanoscale has not been achieved with an on-chip nano-electromechanical system (NEMS) …