Quantum Optics in Solid-State Platforms

Presentations

• Electrical control of optically active single spin qubits in ZnSe

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Publication: Alizadehherfati, A. (2025). Electrical control of optically active single spin qubits in ZnSe. Manuscript in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Amirehsan Alizadehherfati

    • Joint Quantum Institute

  Authors

  • Amirehsan Alizadehherfati

    • Joint Quantum Institute

  • Edo Waks

    • University of Maryland, College Park

  • Yuxi Jiang

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Christine Falter

  • Alexander Pawlis

  • Nils von den Driesch

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• Efficient three-qubit gates with giant atoms

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04545

  Presenters

  • Guangze Chen

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  Authors

  • Guangze Chen

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Anton Frisk Kockum

    • Chalmers University of Technology

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• Cryogenic Characterization off Electro-Optic Organics for Quantum Transduction

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Michiel Debaets

    • Ghent University

  Authors

  • Michiel Debaets

    • Ghent University

  • Conglin Sun

  • Christian Haffner

    • IMEC

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• All-Optical Quantum Thermometry with Germanium and Nickel Color Centers in Diamonds

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: A. Dharmasiri, C. Vincent, T. I. Rajib, M. Pochechuev, X. Liu, A. J. Verhoef, P. R. Hemmer, and A. M. Zheltikov, "Near-infrared optical thermometry of nickel color centers in diamond," Opt. Lett. 50, 968-971 (2025)
  
  A. Dharmasiri, C. Vincent, T. I. Rajib, M. Pochechuev, X. Liu, A. J. Verhoef, G. S. Agarwal, A. M. Zheltikov; Sensitivity and heat penalty in all-optical quantum thermometry with Germanium-vacancy color centers in diamond. Appl. Phys. Lett. 26 August 2024; 125 (9): 091102.

  Presenters

  • Ajithamithra Dharmasiri

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Ajithamithra Dharmasiri

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Christapher Vincent

  • Tanvir Islam Rajib

    • Texas A&M University

  • Matvei Pochechuev

  • Robert Fajt

  • Kennedi Hatcher

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Kelly Rice

  • Philip Hemmer

  • Aart Verhoef

  • Girish Agarwal

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Aleksei Zheltikov

    • Texas A&M University College Station

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• Unraveling Optical Polarization at Deep Microscopic Scales in Crystalline Materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: Unraveling Optical Polarization at Deep Microscopic Scales in Crystalline Materials, Sathwik Bharadwaj and Z. Jacob, ACS Photonics 12 (6), 2944-2954 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Sathwik Bharadwaj

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Authors

  • Sathwik Bharadwaj

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Zubin Jacob

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• Purcell-enhanced bright and dark exciton emission from strongly confined perovskite quantum dots coupled to micro-ring cavity

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Publication: Purcell-enhanced Bright and Dark Excitons Emission from Perovskite Quantum Dot in Micro-ring Cavity (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Lanyin Luo

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  Authors

  • Lanyin Luo

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Mohit Khurana

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Ian Murray

  • Sina Baghbani

  • Akanksha Pandey

  • Xiaohan Liu

  • Alexei Sokolov

    • Texas A&M University College Station

  • Donghee Son

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• Electronically programmable polaritonic molecule for on demand quantum memory

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Priyash Barya

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Laura Heller

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Elizabeth Goldschmidt

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Landau-Zener interaction enhanced quantum sensitivity in spin defects of hexagonal boron nitride

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Mohammad Abdullah Sadi

    • Purdue University

  Authors

  • Mohammad Abdullah Sadi

    • Purdue University

  • Tiamike Dudley

  • Luca Basso

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Thomas Poirier

  • James Edgar

  • Jacob Henshaw

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Yong Chen

  • Andrew Mounce

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Enhanced Mechanoluminescence of ZnS: Mn at 77K

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Debendra Timsina

    • University of Memphis

  Authors

  • Debendra Timsina

    • University of Memphis

  • Stephen Allison

  • William Hollerman

  • Firouzeh Sabri

    • University of Memphis

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• Light emission from plasmonic tunnel junctions coupled to photonic cavities

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Ken Ssennyimba

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Ken Ssennyimba

    • Rice University

  • Kexin Xie

    • Rice University

  • Shusen Liao

    • Rice University

  • Tao Li

  • Douglas Natelson

    • Rice University

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• Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices at room temperature

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Publication: Wei Q, Peter JS, Ren H, Wang W, Zhou L, Liu Q, Ostermann S, Yin J, Cai S, Yelin SF, Li M. Chiral superfluorescence from perovskite superlattices. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22786.

  Presenters

  • Susanne Yelin

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Susanne Yelin

    • Harvard University

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• High-Fidelity Single-Shot Readout and Selective Nuclear Spin Control for a Spin-1/2 Quantum Register in Diamond

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09164

  Presenters

  • Genko Genov

    • Ulm University

  Authors

  • Katharina Senkalla

    • University Ulm

  • Prithvi Gundlapalli

    • IonQ Quantum, Inc.

  • Philipp Vetter

    • University Ulm

  • Genko Genov

    • Ulm University

  • Michael Olney-Fraser

  • Wang Peng

  • Matthias Müller

  • Fedor Jelezko

    • Institute of Quantum Optics, Ulm University

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• Tailoring quantum radiation with giant atoms for quantum metrology

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Alejandro Vivas-Viaña

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  Authors

  • Alejandro Vivas-Viaña

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Anton Frisk Kockum

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