A quantum phase switch between a single solid-state spin and a photon
arXiv:1506.06036 · doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.334
Abstract
Strong interactions between single spins and photons are essential for quantum networks and distributed quantum computation. They provide the necessary interface for entanglement distribution, non-destructive quantum measurements, and strong photon-photon interactions. Achieving spin-photon interactions in a solid-state device could enable compact chip-integrated quantum circuits operating at gigahertz bandwidths. Many theoretical works have suggested using spins embedded in nanophotonic structures to attain this high-speed interface. These proposals exploit strong light-matter interactions to implement a quantum switch, where the spin flips the state of the photon and a photon flips the spin-state. However, such a switch has not yet been realized using a solid-state spin system. Here, we report an experimental realization of a spin-photon quantum switch using a single solid-state spin embedded in a nanophotonic cavity. We show that the spin-state strongly modulates the cavity reflection coefficient, which conditionally flips the polarization state of a reflected photon on picosecond timescales. We also demonstrate the complementary effect where a single photon reflected from the cavity coherently rotates the spin. These strong spin-photon interactions open up a promising direction for solid-state implementations of high-speed quantum networks and on-chip quantum information processors using nanophotonic devices.
The final version of this paper is published online on Nature Nanotechnology (doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.334). Supplementary materials are available in the same link
References in corpus (12)
- An Elementary Quantum Network of Single Atoms in Optical Cavities
- Nanophotonic quantum phase switch with a single atom
- Theory of single-photon transport in a single-mode waveguide coupled to a cavity containing a two-level atom
- A Quantum Gate between a Flying Optical Photon and a Single Trapped Atom
- Giant optical Faraday rotation induced by a single electron spin in a quantum dot: Applications to entangling remote spins via a single photon
- CNOT and Bell-state analysis in the weak-coupling cavity QED regime
- A quantum logic gate between a solid-state quantum bit and a photon
- Nonlinear pi phase shift for single fiber-guided photons interacting with a single atom
- Quantum control of a spin qubit coupled to a photonic crystal cavity
- GaAs photonic crystal cavity with ultra-high Q: microwatt nonlinearity at 1.55 m
- Macroscopic Polarization Rotation Induced by a Single Spin
- Robust-fidelity atom-photon entangling gates in the weak-coupling regime
Cited by in corpus (68)
- Single-Photon Switching and Entanglement of Solid-State Qubits in an Integrated Nanophotonic System
- Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet
- A heterogeneous III-V/silicon integration platform for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices
- Two-Dimensionally Confined Topological Edge States in Photonic Crystals
- Quantum network nodes based on diamond qubits with an efficient nanophotonic interface
- An integrated nanophotonic quantum register based on silicon-vacancy spins in diamond
- A single-photon switch and transistor enabled by a solid-state quantum memory
- Quantum dots for photonic quantum information technology
- Ultrafast, all-optical coherent control of single silicon vacancy colour centres in diamond
- Cavity quantum electrodynamics with color centers in diamond
- Super-radiant emission from quantum dots in a nanophotonic waveguide
- Spin-photon interface and spin-controlled photon switching in a nanobeam waveguide
- A solid-state single-photon filter
- Design and Analysis of Communication Protocols for Quantum Repeater Networks
- Topical Review: optics of exciton-plasmon nanomaterials
- Quantum memory and gates using a Lambda-type quantum emitter coupled to a chiral waveguide
- Topological quantum optics using atom-like emitter arrays coupled to photonic crystals
- Two-Photon Rabi Splitting in a Coupled System of a Nanocavity and Exciton Complexes
- Scattering into one-dimensional waveguides from a coherently-driven quantum-optical system
- Resource requirements for efficient quantum communication using all-photonic graph states generated from a few matter qubits
- Anisotropy-Induced Quantum Interference and Population Trapping Between Orthogonal Quantum Dot Exciton States in Semiconductor Cavity Systems
- Hyper-parallel Toffoli gate on three-photon system with two degrees of freedom assisted by single-sided optical microcavities
- Cavity-enhanced Raman emission from a single color center in a solid
- High-fidelity multi-photon-entangled cluster state with solid-state quantum emitters in photonic nanostructures
- Deterministic Generation of Loss-Tolerant Photonic Cluster States with a Single Quantum Emitter
- Plug-and-play quantum devices with efficient fiber-quantum dot interface
- Two-photon interference from independent cavity-coupled emitters on-a-chip
- A coherent spin-photon interface with waveguide induced cycling transitions
- Spin-based single-photon transistor, dynamic random access memory, diodes and routers in semiconductors
- Scalable spin-photon entanglement by time-to-polarization conversion
- Scalable and High-Fidelity Quantum Random Access Memory in Spin-Photon Networks
- A fiber-integrated single photon source emitting at telecom wavelengths
- A spin-photon interface using charge-tunable quantum dots strongly coupled to a cavity
- Exciton-plasmon energy exchange drives the transition to strong coupling regime
- Spin temperature concept verified by optical magnetometry of nuclear spins
- Quantum interference of resonance fluorescence from Germanium-vacancy color centers in diamond
- Quantum phase gate Based on Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Optical Cavities
- Tomography of optical polarization rotation induced by a quantum dot-cavity device
- Efficient deterministic giant photon phase shift from a single charged quantum dot
- Serialized Quantum Error Correction Protocol for High-Bandwidth Quantum Repeaters
- Single-shot optical readout of a quantum bit using cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Deterministic generation of multidimensional photonic cluster states using time-delay feedback
- A Polarization Encoded Photon-to-Spin Interface
- Coherent optical control of a quantum-dot spin-qubit in a waveguide-based spin-photon interface
- Strain-gradient mapping of semiconductor quantum dots
- Photon phase shift at the few-photon level and optical switching by a quantum dot in a microcavity
- Plasmon-induced coherence, exciton-induced transparency and Fano interference for hybrid plasmonic systems in strong coupling regime
- Can A Universal Quantum Cloner Be Used to Design an Experimentally Feasible Near-Deterministic CNOT Gate ?
- Measurement back-action and spin noise spectroscopy in a charged cavity-QED device in the strong coupling regime
- Exciton-induced transparency in hybrid plasmonic systems
- Cavity-enhanced optical readout of a single solid-state spin
- Photons and polaritons in a time-reversal-broken non-planar resonator
- Giant non-linear interaction between two optical beams via a quantum dot embeddedin a photonic wire
- Quantum Zeno effect under continuous spin noise measurement in a quantum dot-micropillar cavity
- Electroluminescence as a probe of strong exciton-plasmon coupling in few-layer WSe2
- An ultra-high gain single-photon transistor in the microwave regime
- Extracting perfect GHZ states from imperfect weighted graph states via entanglement concentration
- Hybrid microwave-optical scanning probe for addressing solid-state spins in nanophotonic cavities
- Multi-dimensional photonic states from a quantum dot
- Optically Loaded Semiconductor Quantum Memory Register
- Complete hyperentangled Bell states analysis for polarization-spatial-time-bin degrees of freedom with unity fidelity
- Non-Markovian effects for hybrid plasmonic systems in the strong coupling regime
- Quantum Fourier transform on photonic qubits using cavity QED
- Exciton-photon complexes and dynamics in the concurrent strong-weak coupling regime of singular site-controlled cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Single site-controlled inverted pyramidal InGaAs QD-nanocavity operating at the onset of the strong coupling regime
- Birefringent spin-photon interface generates polarization entanglement
- Towards practical secure delegated quantum computing with semi-classical light
- Spin-augmented observables for efficient photonic quantum error correction