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Title: Two-Emitter Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Thin-Film Silicon Carbide Photonics

Abstract

Color centers are point defects in crystals that can provide an optical interface to a long-lived spin state for distributed quantum information processing applications. An outstanding challenge for color center quantum technologies is the integration of optically-coherent emitters into scalable thin-film photonics, a prerequisite for large-scale photonics integration of color centers within a commercial foundry process. Here, we report on the integration of near-transform-limited silicon vacancy (VSi) defects into microdisk resonators fabricated in a CMOS-compatible 4H-Silicon Carbide-on-Insulator platform. We demonstrate a single-emitter cooperativity of up to 0.8 as well as optical superradiance from a pair of color centers coupled to the same cavity mode. We investigate the effect of multimode interference on the photon scattering dynamics from this multi-emitter cavity quantum electrodynamics system. These results are crucial for the development of quantum networks in silicon carbide and bridge the classical-quantum photonics gap by uniting optically-coherent spin defects with wafer-scalable, state-of-the-art photonics.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Swedish Research Council (SRC); QuanTELCO; JSPS KAKENHI; National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRC/Q-NEXT)
OSTI Identifier:
1910270
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1908737
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; SC0019174; AC02-76SF00516; 2020-05444; 862721; 20H00355; 21H04553
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. X
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review. X Journal Volume: 13 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Condensed Matter Physics; Photonics; Quantum Physics

Citation Formats

Lukin, Daniil M., Guidry, Melissa A., Yang, Joshua, Ghezellou, Misagh, Deb Mishra, Sattwik, Abe, Hiroshi, Ohshima, Takeshi, Ul-Hassan, Jawad, and Vučković, Jelena. Two-Emitter Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Thin-Film Silicon Carbide Photonics. United States: N. p., 2023. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011005.
Lukin, Daniil M., Guidry, Melissa A., Yang, Joshua, Ghezellou, Misagh, Deb Mishra, Sattwik, Abe, Hiroshi, Ohshima, Takeshi, Ul-Hassan, Jawad, & Vučković, Jelena. Two-Emitter Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Thin-Film Silicon Carbide Photonics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011005
Lukin, Daniil M., Guidry, Melissa A., Yang, Joshua, Ghezellou, Misagh, Deb Mishra, Sattwik, Abe, Hiroshi, Ohshima, Takeshi, Ul-Hassan, Jawad, and Vučković, Jelena. Thu . "Two-Emitter Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Thin-Film Silicon Carbide Photonics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011005.
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author = {Lukin, Daniil M. and Guidry, Melissa A. and Yang, Joshua and Ghezellou, Misagh and Deb Mishra, Sattwik and Abe, Hiroshi and Ohshima, Takeshi and Ul-Hassan, Jawad and Vučković, Jelena},
abstractNote = {Color centers are point defects in crystals that can provide an optical interface to a long-lived spin state for distributed quantum information processing applications. An outstanding challenge for color center quantum technologies is the integration of optically-coherent emitters into scalable thin-film photonics, a prerequisite for large-scale photonics integration of color centers within a commercial foundry process. Here, we report on the integration of near-transform-limited silicon vacancy (VSi) defects into microdisk resonators fabricated in a CMOS-compatible 4H-Silicon Carbide-on-Insulator platform. We demonstrate a single-emitter cooperativity of up to 0.8 as well as optical superradiance from a pair of color centers coupled to the same cavity mode. We investigate the effect of multimode interference on the photon scattering dynamics from this multi-emitter cavity quantum electrodynamics system. These results are crucial for the development of quantum networks in silicon carbide and bridge the classical-quantum photonics gap by uniting optically-coherent spin defects with wafer-scalable, state-of-the-art photonics.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.13.011005},
journal = {Physical Review. X},
number = 1,
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2023},
month = {Thu Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2023}
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