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20172026
most citedProbing dark excitons in atomically thin semiconductors via near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons

374 citations · 1k across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A Si-on-SiC Platform for Interfacing with Vanadium Dopants in the Telecom O-Band

Timothy Draher, Nolan Bitner, Vasileios Niaouris +6

Vanadium color centers in silicon carbide (SiC) offer telecom O-band emission, sub-microsecond optical lifetimes, and second-scale spin relaxation times, rendering them promising c…

quant-ph2026

Telecom quantum memory over one microsecond in nanophotonic lithium niobate

Priyash Barya, Daren Chen, Ashwith Prabhu +9

Nanophotonic quantum memory is a vital component for scalable quantum information processing for quantum computing, networking, and sensing applications. We store single-photon-lev…

physics.optics2026

Silicon-on-sapphire metasurfaces generate arrays of dark and bright traps for neutral atoms

Chengyu Fang, Minjeong Kim, Hongyan Mei +10

We demonstrated crystalline silicon-on-sapphire (c-SOS) metasurfaces that convert a Gaussian beam into arrays of complex optical traps, including arrays of optical bottle beams tha…

quant-ph2025

InterQnet: A Heterogeneous Full-Stack Approach to Co-designing Scalable Quantum Networks

Joaquin Chung, Daniel Dilley, Ely Eastman +21

Quantum communications have progressed significantly, moving from a theoretical concept to small-scale experiments to recent metropolitan-scale demonstrations. As the technology ma…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Erbium Quantum Memory Platform with Long Optical Coherence via Back-End of Line Deposition on Foundry-Fabricated Photonics

Shobhit Gupta, Robert M. Pettit, Ananthesh Sundaresh +7

Realizing scalable quantum interconnects necessitates the integration of solid-state quantum memories with foundry photonics processes. While prior photonic integration efforts hav…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Isolation of individual Er quantum emitters in anatase TiO on Si photonics

Cheng Ji, Robert M. Pettit, Shobhit Gupta +10

Defects and dopant atoms in solid state materials are a promising platform for realizing single photon sources and quantum memories, which are the basic building blocks of quantum…

quant-ph2024

Extended spin relaxation times of optically addressed telecom defects in silicon carbide

Jonghoon Ahn, Christina Wicker, Nolan Bitner +7

Optically interfaced solid-state defects are promising candidates for quantum communication technologies. The ideal defect system would feature bright telecom emission, long-lived…

physics.optics2024

Atomic magnetometry using a metasurface polarizing beamsplitter in silicon on sapphire

Xuting Yang, Pritha Mukherjee, Minjeong Kim +9

We demonstrate atomic magnetometry using a metasurface polarizing beamsplitter fabricated on a silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) platform. The metasurface splits a beam that is near-resona…

physics.ins-det2023★ 5 cited

Beam Tests of SNSPDs with 120 GeV Protons

Sangbaek Lee, Tomas Polakovic, Whitney Armstrong +5

We report the test results for a 120 GeV proton beam incident on superconducting nanowire particle detectors of various wire sizes. NbN devices with the same sensitive area were fa…

quant-ph2023★ 34 cited

An integrated atom array -- nanophotonic chip platform with background-free imaging

Shankar G. Menon, Noah Glachman, Matteo Pompili +2

Arrays of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers have emerged as a leading platform for quantum information processing and quantum simulation due to their scalability, reconfigu…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 2 cited

Design and Performance of Parallel-channel Nanocryotrons in Magnetic Fields

Timothy Draher, Tomas Polakovic, Yi Li +5

We introduce a design modification to conventional geometry of the cryogenic three-terminal switch, the nanocryotron (nTron). The conventional geometry of nTrons is modified by inc…

quant-ph2023★ 15 cited

Optical and spin coherence of Er in epitaxial CeO on silicon

Jiefei Zhang, Gregory D. Grant, Ignas Masiulionis +8

Solid-state atomic defects with optical transitions in the telecommunication bands, potentially in a nuclear spin free environment, are important for applications in fiber-based qu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Optical and microstructural characterization of Er doped epitaxial cerium oxide on silicon

Gregory D. Grant, Jiefei Zhang, Ignas Masiulionis +15

Rare-earth ion dopants in solid-state hosts are ideal candidates for quantum communication technologies such as quantum memory, due to the intrinsic spin-photon interface of the ra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Nanocavity-mediated Purcell enhancement of Er in TiO thin films grown via atomic layer deposition

Cheng Ji, Michael T. Solomon, Gregory D. Grant +12

The use of trivalent erbium (Er), typically embedded as an atomic defect in the solid-state, has widespread adoption as a dopant in telecommunications devices and shows prom…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Anomalous Purcell decay of strongly driven inhomogeneous emitters coupled to a cavity

Michael T. Solomon, Martin Koppenhöfer, Mikhail Mamaev +9

We perform resonant fluorescence lifetime measurements on a nanocavity-coupled erbium ensemble as a function of cavity-laser detuning and pump power. Our measurements reveal an ano…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

A differentiable forward model for the concurrent, multi-peak Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction imaging problem

S. Maddali, T. D. Frazer, N. Delegan +12

We present a general analytic approach to spatially resolve the nano-scale lattice distortion field of strained and defected compact crystals with Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 33 cited

Purcell enhancement of erbium ions in TiO on silicon nanocavities

Alan M. Dibos, Michael T. Solomon, Sean E. Sullivan +9

Isolated solid-state atomic defects with telecom optical transitions are ideal quantum photon emitters and spin qubits for applications in long-distance quantum communication netwo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 8 cited

Development of a Scalable Quantum Memory Platform -- Materials Science of Erbium-Doped TiO Thin Films on Silicon

Manish Kumar Singh, Gary Wolfowicz, Jianguo Wen +6

Rare-earth ions (REI) have emerged as an attractive candidate for solid-state qubits, particularly as a quantum memory. Their 4f-4f transitions are shielded by filled 5s and 5p orb…

quant-ph2019★ 237 cited

Optical quantum nondemolition measurement of a solid-state spin without a cycling transition

Mouktik Raha, Songtao Chen, Christopher M. Phenicie +3

Optically-interfaced spins in the solid state are a promising platform for quantum technologies. A crucial component of these systems is high-fidelity, projective measurement of th…

quant-ph2017★ 329 cited

Isolating and enhancing the emission of single erbium ions using a silicon nanophotonic cavity

Alan Dibos, Mouktik Raha, Chris Phenicie +1

The ability to distribute quantum entanglement over long distances is a vital ingredient for quantum technologies. Single atoms and atom-like defects in solids are ideal quantum li…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 374 cited

Probing dark excitons in atomically thin semiconductors via near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons

You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Dominik S. Wild +12

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are direct bandgap semiconductors that feature tightly bound excitons, strong spin-orbit coupling, and spin-valley degrees of freed…