The generation, manipulation, storage, and detection of single photons play a central role in
emerging photonic quantum information technology. Individual photons serve as flying …

Piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials have shown great potential for control of the optical
process in emerging materials. There are three ways for them to impact on the optical …

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors are intriguing hosts for
quantum light sources due to their unique optoelectronic properties. Here, we report that …

Tunable biaxial stresses, both tensile and compressive, are applied to a single layer
graphene by utilizing piezoelectric actuators. The Grüneisen parameters for the phonons …

Quantum dots (QDs) embedded in photonic nanostructures have in recent years proven to
be a very powerful solid-state platform for quantum optics experiments. The combination of …

Entanglement is one of the most fascinating properties of quantum mechanical systems;
when two particles are entangled the measurement of the properties of one of the two allows …

More than 80 years have passed since the first publication on entangled quantum states.
Over this period, the concept of spookily interacting quantum states became an emerging …

The quest for an integrated quantum optics platform has motivated the field of semiconductor
quantum dot research for two decades. Demonstrations of quantum light sources, single …

The lack of structural symmetry which usually characterizes semiconductor quantum dots
lifts the energetic degeneracy of the bright excitonic states and hampers severely their use …

Many of the quantum information applications rely on indistinguishable sources of
polarization-entangled photons. Semiconductor quantum dots are among the leading …