Nature Communications (May 2020)
Spin-controlled generation of indistinguishable and distinguishable photons from silicon vacancy centres in silicon carbide
- Naoya Morioka,
- Charles Babin,
- Roland Nagy,
- Izel Gediz,
- Erik Hesselmeier,
- Di Liu,
- Matthew Joliffe,
- Matthias Niethammer,
- Durga Dasari,
- Vadim Vorobyov,
- Roman Kolesov,
- Rainer Stöhr,
- Jawad Ul-Hassan,
- Nguyen Tien Son,
- Takeshi Ohshima,
- Péter Udvarhelyi,
- Gergő Thiering,
- Adam Gali,
- Jörg Wrachtrup,
- Florian Kaiser
Affiliations
- Naoya Morioka
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Charles Babin
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Roland Nagy
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Izel Gediz
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Erik Hesselmeier
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Di Liu
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Matthew Joliffe
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Matthias Niethammer
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Durga Dasari
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Vadim Vorobyov
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Roman Kolesov
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Rainer Stöhr
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Jawad Ul-Hassan
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University
- Nguyen Tien Son
- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University
- Takeshi Ohshima
- National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
- Péter Udvarhelyi
- Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University
- Gergő Thiering
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics
- Adam Gali
- Wigner Research Centre for Physics
- Jörg Wrachtrup
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- Florian Kaiser
- 3rd Institute of Physics, University of Stuttgart and Institute for Quantum Science and Technology IQST
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16330-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
Defects in silicon carbide can act as single photon sources that also have the benefit of a host material that is already used in electronic devices. Here the authors demonstrate that they can control the distinguishability of the emitted photons by changing the defect spin state.
