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20242026
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11 papers

physics.optics2026

Electrically Reconfigurable Silicon Carbide Nanophotonic Cavities on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate

San Lam Ng, Georgii Grechko, Vladislav Bushmakin +4

Interfacing integrated photonics with solid-state spin defects holds great promise for future quantum networks, but the scaling of spin-photon architectures is hindered by frequenc…

quant-ph2026

RF-free driving of nuclear spins with color centers in silicon carbide

Raphael Wörnle, Jonathan Körber, Timo Steidl +5

Color centers that enable nuclear-spin control without RF fields offer a powerful route towards simplified and scalable quantum devices. Such capabilities are especially valuable f…

quant-ph2025

Localization and coherent control of 25 nuclear spins in Silicon Carbide

Pierre Kuna, Erik Hesselmeier-Hüttmann, Phillip Schillinger +7

Optically addressable spin defects are excellent candidate platform for quantum sensing and quantum network. Nuclear spins coupled to color centers naturally enable long lived quan…

quant-ph2025

Waveguide-integrated colour centres in silicon carbide with broadband photonic crystal reflectors for efficient readout

Marcel Krumrein, Julian M. Bopp, Timo Steidl +5

Spin-active colour centres in 4H silicon carbide are promising candidates as building blocks for quantum information applications. To increase the photon count rate of the emitters…

quant-ph2025

Converting coherence into work with a fully quantum engine

MinSik Kwon, Tobias Denzler, Rouven Maier +4

Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work. We here report the experimental realization of a fully quantum engine that converts quantum coherence into work. A single…

quant-ph2025

Readout of a solid state spin ensemble at the projection noise limit

Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Andrej Denisenko +4

Spin ensembles are central to quantum science, from frequency standards and fundamental physics searches to magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum sensing. Their performance i…