Nanoscale Systems for Optical Quantum Technologies

Project Information

NanOQTech

Grant agreement ID: 712721

DOI 10.3030/712721

Project closed

EC signature date 27 May 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 30 September 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost € 3 378 428,75

EU contribution € 3 378 428,75

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Deliverables

Other (4)

Mini-summer school

Mini-summer school.

Industrial workshop

Industrial workshop.

Optimized particles and thin films

Synthesis and characterization of optimized Er3+ and Eu3+:Y2O3 nanoparticles and thin films.

Co-doped particles

Synthesis of co-doped Y2O3 particles according to the candidates identified in MS1.

Documents, reports (24)

Simulation of state dynamics

Report on simulation tool for state dynamics conditioned on continuous probing.

Comparison between FIB samples and thin films for nano-resonators

Report on the properties of FIB samples and thin films for nano-resonators in relation with MS6.

Dissemination and exploitation plan

Dissemination and exploitation plan. It will be updated for each action check meetings.

Optical linewidth and spin T2 in Eu3+:Y2O3 particles

Report on the optical linewidth and spin T2 of Eu3+:Y2O3 particles in relation with MS5.

Effect of strain on Eu3+

Report on feasibility of coupling Eu3+ ions to host crystal via crystal strain.

Schemes for hybrid systems

Report on schemes for optimal quantum coherent manipulation of hybrid systems.

Dissemination report

Dissemination report.

Ensemble coupled to cavity

Report on Purcell enhancement of cryogenic ion ensembles in relation with MS2.

Non classical states in nano-resonators

Report on potentiality to place nano-oscillator in non-classical states.

Sensing in hybrid systems

Report on sensing capabilities of hybrid systems, and their dependence on damping and dissipation effects.

Magnetic field effects on Eu3+

Report on magnetic field effects on single Eu3+:Y2O3 particles.

Action check meeting 1

Draft agenda and presentations of action check meeting 1.

Plasmon induced ion coupling

Report on signatures of plasmon-mediated ion-ion coupling.

Single ion quantum memory

Report on cavity-enhanced detection and manipulation of a single Eu3+ ion quantum memory.

Readout/qubit ion candidates

Report on readout/qubit candidates in relation with MS1.

Coherence in Er3+ nanostructures

Report on coherence properties in Er3+:Y2O3 nanostructures.

Nano-resonators

Report on feasibility of fabricating nano-resonators from RE doped Y2SiO5 using FIB.

Single readout ion

Report on Purcell-enhancement of a single readout ion coupled to a qubit ion.

Master equation for the dynamics of rare earth ions coupled to mechanical vibrations

Report on master equation approach for describing the dynamics of rare earth ions coupled to mechanical vibrations in relation with MS4.

Single photon at 1.5 µm

Report on single photon generation from erbium using fiber cavity.

Action check meeting 2

Draft agenda and presentations of action check meeting 2.

Conditional dynamics

Theory on conditional dynamics and quantum computation schemes with ions in cavities.

Plasmon launching

Report on efficient, quasi-deterministic plasmon launching in RE-graphene films in relation with MS3.

Ion-ion interactions readout

Report on cavity-enhanced readout of Eu3+ ion-ion interactions for their use for quantum gates.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Web site and logo

Web site and logo. The web site will be continuously updated during the project.

Open Research Data Pilot (2)

Data Management Plan

Data management plan of the project.

Update of the Data Management Plan

Update of the data management plan.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Coherence Time Extension by Large-Scale Optical Spin Polarization in a Rare-Earth Doped Crystal

Author(s): Sacha Welinski, Alexey Tiranov, Moritz Businger, Alban Ferrier, Mikael Afzelius, Philippe Goldner
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 10/3, 2020, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.031060

A Frequency-Multiplexed Coherent Electro-optic Memory in Rare Earth Doped Nanoparticles

Author(s): Alexandre Fossati, Shuping Liu, Jenny Karlsson, Akio Ikesue, Alexandre Tallaire, Alban Ferrier, Diana Serrano, Philippe Goldner
Published in: Nano Letters, 2020, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02200

Fast electrical modulation of strong near-field interactions between erbium emitters and graphene

Author(s): Daniel Cano, Alban Ferrier, Karuppasamy Soundarapandian, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Marion Scarafagio, Alexandre Tallaire, Antoine Seyeux, Philippe Marcus, Hugues de Riedmatten, Philippe Goldner, Frank H. L. Koppens, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17899-7

Chemically vapor deposited Eu 3+ :Y 2 O 3 thin films as a material platform for quantum technologies

Author(s): Nao Harada, Alban Ferrier, Diana Serrano, Mauro Persechino, Emrick Briand, Romain Bachelet, Ian Vickridge, Jean-Jacques Ganem, Philippe Goldner, Alexandre Tallaire
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 128/5, 2020, Page(s) 055304, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0010833

Position- and momentum-squeezed quantum states in micro-scale mechanical resonators

Author(s): Yann Le Coq, Klaus Mølmer, Signe Seidelin
Published in: Modern Physics Letters B, Issue 34/17, 2020, Page(s) 2050193, ISSN 0217-9849
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
DOI: 10.1142/s0217984920501936

Precision measurements of electric-field-induced frequency displacements of an ultranarrow optical transition in ions in a solid

Author(s): S. Zhang, N. Lučić, N. Galland, R. Le Targat, P. Goldner, B. Fang, S. Seidelin, Y. Le Coq
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 117/22, 2020, Page(s) 221102, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0025356

Defect Engineering for Quantum Grade Rare-Earth Nanocrystals

Author(s): Shuping Liu, Alexandre Fossati, Diana Serrano, Alexandre Tallaire, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 14/8, 2020, Page(s) 9953-9962, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c02971

Recent Advances in Rare Earth Doped Inorganic Crystalline Materials for Quantum Information Processing

Author(s): Nathalie Kunkel, Philippe Goldner
Published in: Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, Issue 644/2, 2018, Page(s) 66-76, ISSN 0044-2313
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201700425

All-optical control of long-lived nuclear spins in rare-earth doped nanoparticles

Author(s): D. Serrano, J. Karlsson, A. Fossati, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04509-w

Controlled size reduction of rare earth doped nanoparticles for optical quantum technologies

Author(s): Shuping Liu, Diana Serrano, Alexandre Fossati, Alexandre Tallaire, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner
Published in: RSC Advances, Issue 8/65, 2018, Page(s) 37098-37104, ISSN 2046-2069
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra07246a

Cavity-enhanced spectroscopy of a few-ion ensemble in Eu 3+ :Y 2 O 3

Author(s): Bernardo Casabone, Julia Benedikter, Thomas Hümmer, Franziska Oehl, Karmel de Oliveira Lima, Theodor W Hänsch, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Hugues de Riedmatten, David Hunger
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 20/9, 2018, Page(s) 095006, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aadf68

Coherent optical and spin spectroscopy of nanoscale Pr 3 + : Y 2

Author(s): D. Serrano, C. Deshmukh, S. Liu, A. Tallaire, A. Ferrier, H. de Riedmatten, P. Goldner
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 100/14, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.100.144304

Dicke phase transition in a disordered emitter–graphene-plasmon system

Author(s): Yu-Xiang Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 98/3, 2018, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.033821

Monte-Carlo simulations of superradiant lasing

Author(s): Yuan Zhang, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 20/11, 2018, Page(s) 112001, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aaec36

Surface Plasmon Launching by Polariton Superradiance

Author(s): Yu-Xiang Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 6/4, 2019, Page(s) 871-877, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00193

Microscale Crystalline Rare-Earth Doped Resonators for Strain-Coupled Optomechanics

Author(s): Jean-François Motte, Nicolas Galland, Jérôme Debray, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner, Nemenja Lučić, Shuo Zhang, Bess Fang, Yann Le Coq, Signe Seidelin
Published in: Journal of Modern Physics, Issue 10/11, 2019, Page(s) 1342-1352, ISSN 2153-1196
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2019.1011088

Multistate and multihypothesis discrimination with open quantum systems

Author(s): Alexander Holm Kiilerich, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 97/5, 2018, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.97.052113

Rapid cooling of a strain-coupled oscillator by an optical phase-shift measurement

Author(s): Signe Seidelin, Yann Le Coq, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/1, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.013828

Inverse engineering of shortcut pulses for high fidelity initialization on qubits closely spaced in frequency

Author(s): Ying Yan, Yichao Li, Adam Kinos, Andreas Walther, Chunyan Shi, Lars Rippe, Joel Moser, Stefan Kröll, Xi Chen
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 27/6, 2019, Page(s) 8267, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.008267

Ultrathin Eu- and Er-Doped Y 2 O 3 Films with Optimized Optical Properties for Quantum Technologies

Author(s): Marion Scarafagio, Alexandre Tallaire, Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, Daniel Cano, André Grishin, Marie-Hélène Chavanne, Frank H. L. Koppens, Armelle Ringuedé, Michel Cassir, Diana Serrano, Philippe Goldner, Alban Ferrier
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 123/21, 2019, Page(s) 13354-13364, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b02597

Theory of Subradiant States of a One-Dimensional Two-Level Atom Chain

Author(s): Yu-Xiang Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 122/20, 2019, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.203605

Transverse-mode coupling effects in scanning cavity microscopy

Author(s): Julia Benedikter, Thea Moosmayer, Matthias Mader, Thomas Hümmer, David Hunger
Published in: New Journal of Physics, Issue 21/10, 2019, Page(s) 103029, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab49b4

Lasing in the superradiant crossover regime

Author(s): Kamanasish Debnath, Yuan Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 98/6, 2018, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.063837

Coherent spectral hole burning and qubit isolation by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

Author(s): Kamanasish Debnath, Alexander Holm Kiilerich, Albert Benseny, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/2, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.023813

Emerging rare-earth doped material platforms for quantum nanophotonics

Author(s): Tian Zhong, Philippe Goldner
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 8/11, 2019, Page(s) 2003-2015, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0185

Collective dynamics of inhomogeneously broadened emitters coupled to an optical cavity with narrow linewidth

Author(s): Kamanasish Debnath, Yuan Zhang, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 100/5, 2019, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.053821

Dispersive coupling between light and a rare-earth-ion–doped mechanical resonator

Author(s): Klaus Mølmer, Yann Le Coq, Signe Seidelin
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 94/5, 2016, Page(s) 053804, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053804

Nuclear spin coherence properties of 151 Eu 3+ and 153 Eu 3+ in a Y 2 O 3 transparent ceramic

Author(s): J Karlsson, N Kunkel, A Ikesue, A Ferrier, P Goldner
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 29/12, 2017, Page(s) 125501, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa529a

Optical Line Width Broadening Mechanisms at the 10 kHz Level in Eu 3+ :Y 2 O 3 Nanoparticles

Author(s): John G. Bartholomew, Karmel de Oliveira Lima, Alban Ferrier, Philippe Goldner
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 17/2, 2017, Page(s) 778-787, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03949

Improving the Luminescent Properties of Atomic Layer Deposition Eu:Y 2 O 3 Thin Films through Optimized Thermal Annealing

Author(s): Marion Scarafagio, Alexandre Tallaire, Marie-Hélène Chavanne, Michel Cassir, Armelle Ringuedé, Diana Serrano, Philippe Goldner, Alban Ferrier
Published in: physica status solidi (a), Issue 1900909, 2020, Page(s) 1900909, ISSN 1862-6300
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201900909

Subradiant bound dimer excited states of emitter chains coupled to a one dimensional waveguide

Author(s): Yu-Xiang Zhang, Chuan Yu, Klaus Mølmer
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 2/1, 2020, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013173

Double-heterodyne probing for an ultra-stable laser based on spectral hole burning in a rare-earth-doped crystal

Author(s): N. Galland, N. Lučić, S. Zhang, H. Alvarez-Martinez, R. Le Targat, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, B. Fang, S. Seidelin, Y. Le Coq
Published in: Optics Letters, Issue 45/7, 2020, Page(s) 1930, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OL.389833

Mechanical Tunability of an Ultranarrow Spectral Feature of a Rare-Earth-Doped Crystal via Uniaxial Stress

Author(s): N. Galland, N. Lučić, B. Fang, S. Zhang, R. Le Targat, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Seidelin, Y. Le Coq
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 13/4, 2020, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.044022

Inhomogeneous response of an ion ensemble from mechanical stress

Author(s): S. Zhang, N. Galland, N. Lučić, R. Le Targat, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, B. Fang, Y. Le Coq, S. Seidelin
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 2/1, 2020, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: APS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013306

Dispersive heterodyne probing method for laser frequency stabilization based on spectral hole burning in rare-earth doped crystals

Author(s): O. Gobron, K. Jung, N. Galland, K. Predehl, R. Le Targat, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Seidelin, Y. Le Coq
Published in: Optics Express, Issue 25/13, 2017, Page(s) 15539, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.015539

Magnon Accumulation in Chirally Coupled Magnets

Author(s): Tao Yu, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Sanchar Sharma, Xiang Zhang, Yaroslav M. Blanter, Gerrit E. W. Bauer
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 124/10, 2020, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.107202