Leveraging Defects for Quantum Information Science

Presentations

• Data-Driven Discovery of Point Defects for Quantum Technology 

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Kristian Thygesen

    • Technical University of Denmark

  Authors

  • Kristian Thygesen

    • Technical University of Denmark

  • Haiyuan Wang

  • Manjari Jain

  • Kartikeya Sharma

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• Tuning surface band bending in transition metal-doped silicon for quantum defect selection

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: Planned Paper - Surface band bending and deep levels in Al/Si:Ag Schottky diodes

  Presenters

  • Shruti De

    • University at Albany

  Authors

  • Shruti De

    • University at Albany

  • Mengbing Huang

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• Role of erbium and its complex with native defect in silicon

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: [1] D. Awschalom et al., Nat. Photon. 12, 516 (2018).
  [2] A. Dibos et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 243601 (2018).
  [3] L. Yang et al., Nat. Commun 14, 1718 (2022).
  [4] S. Chen et al., Science 370, 592 (2020).
  [5] S. Rinner et al., Nanophotonics 12, 3455 (2023).
  [6] I. Berkman et al., arXiv 2307, 10021 (2023).
  [7] L. Weiss et al., Optica 8, 40 (2021).
  [8] Z. Zhou, B. Yin and J. Michel, Light Sci. Appl. 4, e358 (2015).

  Presenters

  • Hyungwoo Lee

    • Inha University

  Authors

  • Hyungwoo Lee

    • Inha University

  • Minseok Choi

    • Inha University

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• Identifying the effect of point defects on tunneling in silicon tunneling devices

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Shashank Misra

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  Authors

  • Shashank Misra

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Evan Anderson

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Abigail Berg

    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• A carbon-nitrogen complex in Si for spin qubits and single-photon emitters

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: J. K. Nangoi, M. E. Turiansky, and C. G. Van de Walle, "A carbon-nitrogen complex in Si for spin qubits and single-photon emitters", in preparation for Physical Review B (2025).

  Presenters

  • Johannes Kevin Nangoi

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Johannes Kevin Nangoi

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Mark Turiansky

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Chris Van de Walle

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Machine-Learning Phonon Spectra for Defect Luminescence

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: M. E. Turiansky, J. L. Lyons, and N. Bernstein, arXiv:2508.09113 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Mark Turiansky

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  Authors

  • Mark Turiansky

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • John Lyons

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Noam Bernstein

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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• Optical and Electronic Characteristics of the Silicon X-center

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: [1] C. Fan, et al., "Photo-physics of Silicon X-center Ensembles with Above Bandgap Excitations," in CLEO 2024, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), paper FTu3I.5.
  [2] Cody Fan, Alex Giovannone, Juan Gaitan, Murat can Sarihan, Jin Ho Kang, Andrew Lin, Jiahui Huang, Wei-Hsu Lin, Khalifa Azizur-Rahman, Nick Agladze, Jaya Nolt, Baolai Liang, Mark Sherwin, and Chee Wei Wong, Electron paramagnetic resonance and optical properties of a self-interstitial color center in silicon (in revisions)

  Presenters

  • Cody Fan

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Cody Fan

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Alex Giovannone

    • The Ohio State University

  • Juan Gaitan

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Murat Can Sarihan

    • Google

  • Jin Ho Kang

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Andrew Lin

  • Jiahui Huang

  • Wei-Hsu Lin

  • Khalifa Azizur-Rahman

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Nick Agladze

  • Jaya Nolt

  • Baolai Liang

  • Mark Sherwin

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Chee Wei Wong

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time of Solid-State Spin Qubits from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Enrico Drigo

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Enrico Drigo

    • University of Chicago

  • Giulia Galli

    • University of Chicago

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• Spin coherence time temperature anomaly of the V_Si and V_C vacancy centers in 4H-SiC

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: Currently in production to be published in Physical Review B: https://apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/pendingpub.html?doi=10.1103%2Fjwn5-p7rg

  Presenters

  • Philip Chrostoski

    • Waldorf University

  Authors

  • Philip Chrostoski

    • Waldorf University

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• Field-driven dynamic charge stability of nitrogen vacancy centers near diamond-water interface

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Sirisak Singsen

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Sirisak Singsen

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Alvin Yu

  • Elizabeth Lee

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Density-functional theory study of the interaction between NV centers and native defects in diamond

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.22683

  Presenters

  • Gabriel López-Morales

    • Stony Brook University

  Authors

  • Gabriel López-Morales

    • Stony Brook University

  • Joanna Zajac

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  • Tom DeLord

    • CUNY

  • Carlos Meriles

    • City College of New York

  • Cyrus Dreyer

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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• First-principles study of interacting nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Publication: [1] Y. Jin, V. W.-z. Yu, M. Govoni, A. C. Xu, and G. Galli, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19, 8689 (2023)
  [2] S. Chen, V. W.-z. Yu, Y. Jin, M. Govoni, and G. Galli, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 21, 7797 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Siyuan Chen

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Siyuan Chen

    • University of Chicago

  • Victor Yu

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Maryam Ghazisaeidi

    • The Ohio State University

  • Giulia Galli

    • University of Chicago

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• Spin-orbit coupling in solid-state spin defects from first principles

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Yu Jin

    • Flatiron Institute

  Authors

  • Yu Jin

    • Flatiron Institute

  • Jinsoo Park

    • Caltech

  • Giulia Galli

    • University of Chicago

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