Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials

M Turunen, M Brotons-Gisbert, Y Dai, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

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 …

Cooperative quantum phenomena in light-matter platforms

M Reitz, C Sommer, C Genes - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Quantum cooperativity is evident in light-matter platforms where quantum-emitter ensembles
are interfaced with confined optical modes and are coupled via the ubiquitous …

Storage and release of subradiant excitations in a dense atomic cloud

G Ferioli, A Glicenstein, L Henriet, I Ferrier-Barbut… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We report the observation of subradiance in dense ensembles of cold Rb 87 atoms
operating near Dicke's regime of a large number of atoms in a volume with dimensions …

Enhanced nonlinear interaction of polaritons via excitonic Rydberg states in monolayer WSe2

J Gu, V Walther, L Waldecker, D Rhodes, A Raja… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Strong optical nonlinearities play a central role in realizing quantum photonic technologies.
Exciton-polaritons, which result from the hybridization of material excitations and cavity …

An inverse-designed nanophotonic interface for excitons in atomically thin materials

RJ Gelly, AD White, G Scuri, X Liao, GH Ahn… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Efficient nanophotonic devices are essential for applications in quantum networking, optical
information processing, sensing, and nonlinear optics. Extensive research efforts have …

Creating large Fock states and massively squeezed states in optics using systems with nonlinear bound states in the continuum

N Rivera, J Sloan, Y Salamin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The quantization of the electromagnetic field leads directly to the existence of quantum
mechanical states, called Fock states, with an exact integer number of photons. Despite …

Revealing strong plasmon-exciton coupling between nanogap resonators and two-dimensional semiconductors at ambient conditions

J Qin, YH Chen, Z Zhang, Y Zhang, RJ Blaikie, B Ding… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Strong coupling of two-dimensional semiconductor excitons with plasmonic resonators
enables control of light-matter interaction at the subwavelength scale. Here we develop such …

Two-dimensional materials with giant optical nonlinearities near the theoretical upper limit

A Taghizadeh, KS Thygesen, TG Pedersen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nonlinear optical (NLO) phenomena such as harmonic generation and Kerr and Pockels
effects are of great technological importance for lasers, frequency converters, modulators …

Interacting polaron-polaritons

LB Tan, O Cotlet, A Bergschneider, R Schmidt, P Back… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Two-dimensional semiconductors provide an ideal platform for exploration of linear exciton
and polariton physics, primarily due to large exciton binding energy and strong light-matter …