Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

C Toninelli, I Gerhardt, AS Clark, A Reserbat-Plantey… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Isolating single molecules in the solid state has allowed fundamental experiments in basic
and applied sciences. When cooled down to liquid helium temperature, certain molecules …

Toward fluorescence nanoscopy

SW Hell - Nature biotechnology, 2003 - nature.com
For more than a century, the resolution of focusing light microscopy has been limited by
diffraction to 180 nm in the focal plane and to 500 nm along the optic axis. Recently …

Collective super-and subradiant dynamics between distant optical quantum emitters

A Tiranov, V Angelopoulou, CJ van Diepen, B Schrinski… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Photon emission is the hallmark of light-matter interaction and the foundation of photonic
quantum science, enabling advanced sources for quantum communication and computing …

Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole–dipole coupling in real space

Y Zhang, Y Luo, Y Zhang, YJ Yu, YM Kuang, L Zhang… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Many important energy-transfer and optical processes, in both biological and artificial
systems, depend crucially on excitonic coupling that spans several chromophores,,,,,,,,. Such …

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 …

Single-molecule laser nanospectroscopy with micro–electron volt energy resolution

H Imada, M Imai-Imada, K Miwa, H Yamane, T Iwasa… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Ways to characterize and control excited states at the single-molecule and atomic levels are
needed to exploit excitation-triggered energy-conversion processes. Here, we present a …

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 …

Observation of Coherent Oscillation of a Single Nuclear Spin and Realization<? format?> of a Two-Qubit Conditional Quantum Gate

F Jelezko, T Gaebel, I Popa, M Domhan, A Gruber… - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
Rabi nutations of a single nuclear spin in a solid have been observed. The experiments
were carried out on a single electron and a single C 13 nuclear spin of a single nitrogen …

High-speed nanoscopic tracking of the position and orientation of a single virus

P Kukura, H Ewers, C Müller, A Renn, A Helenius… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Optical studies have revealed that, after binding, virions move laterally on the plasma
membrane, but the complexity of the cellular environment and the drawbacks of …

Room-temperature coherent coupling of single spins in diamond

T Gaebel, M Domhan, I Popa, C Wittmann… - Nature Physics, 2006 - nature.com
Coherent coupling between single quantum objects is at the very heart of modern quantum
physics. When the coupling is strong enough to prevail over decoherence, it can be used to …