Effective methods to generate colour centres in diamond and other wide band-gap materials
are essential to the realisation of solid state quantum technologies based on such systems …

We provide a self-contained review of master equation approaches to modelling phonon
effects in optically driven self-assembled quantum dots. Coupling of the (quasi) two-level …

Optically active point defects in crystals have gained widespread attention as photonic
systems that could be applied in quantum information technologies,. However, challenges …

The controlled creation of defect centre—nanocavity systems is one of the outstanding
challenges for efficiently interfacing spin quantum memories with photons for photon-based …

Physics and information are intimately connected, and the ultimate information processing
devices will be those that harness the principles of quantum mechanics. Many physical …

The observation of quantum-dot resonance fluorescence enabled a new solid-state
approach to generating single photons with a bandwidth approaching the natural linewidth …

The negatively charged silicon-vacancy (SiV−) center in diamond is a promising single-
photon source for quantum communications and information processing. However, the …

Diamond is an attractive material for photonic quantum technologies because its colour
centres have a number of outstanding properties, including bright single photon emission …

We report on the coupling of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in a nanodiamond to a
fiber-based microcavity at room temperature. Investigating the very same NV center inside …

A scalable quantum computer could be built by networking together many simple processor
cells, thus avoiding the need to create a single complex structure. The difficulty is that …