Gabriele GrossoCity University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center – New York, New York, USA_______________________________________ Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising material for quantum photonics due to its ability to host single-photon emitters (SPEs) that operate at room temperature with high brightness and stability [1,2]. Emitters in hBN exhibit significant variability…
Chunhui Rita Du Georgia Institute of Technology – Atlanta, Georgia, USA_______________________________________ Emergent color centers with optically accessible spins have attracted tremendous research interest in recent years due to their significant potential for implementing transformative quantum sensing technologies. Spin defects hosted by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are emerging candidates in this catalog due to their remarkable…
Patrick E. HopkinsUniversity of Virginia – Charlottesville, Virginia, USA_______________________________________ Thermal transport across solid-solid interfaces is vital for advanced electronic and photonic applications, yet conventional conduction pathways often restrict performance. In polar crystals, hybridized vibrational modes called phonon-polaritons offer a promising avenue to overcome the limitations of intrinsic phonon heat conduction. Our work demonstrates that volume-confined…
James H. EdgarKansas State University – Lawrence, Kansas, USA_______________________________________ Neutron irradiation has potential advantages for creating boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum sensing applications. The boron-10 isotope has one of the strongest interactions with thermal neutrons of any isotope of any element, roughly 3750 barns, compared to 1-2 barns for the isotopes of…
Mengkyn LiuStony Brook University – Stony Brook, New York, USA_______________________________________ Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) serves as a versatile platform for hosting polaritonic phenomena in low-dimensional materials. We report on a novel type of polaritons—Landauphonon polaritons (LPPs)—emerging from the hybridization of Dirac magnetoexciton modes in graphene with waveguide phonon polariton modes of hBN. Using infrared magneto-nanoscopy,…
Xiaoqin Elaine LiUniversity of Texas at Austin – Austin, Texas USA_______________________________________ Moiré superlattices are typically created by stacking and twisting two functional layers, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). This process often results in simultaneous changes in electronic and photonic properties as a function of the twist angle, which can impose undesirable constraints….
Deyu LiVanderbilt University – Nashville, Tennessee, USA_______________________________________ Phonon polaritons (PhPs) have attracted extensive attention in the study of light-matter interactions because of their origin as the hybrid modes generated from coupling between infrared photons and optically active phonons. In terms of energy transport, while the contribution of surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) to near-field radiation has…
Atac Imamoglu
Professor of Physics, ETH Zurich
Atac Imamoglu received his PhD in 1991 from Stanford University for his work on electromagnetically induced transparency. After an ITAMP postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant professor where he demonstrated the first solid-state single-photon source. In 2002, he moved to the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Quantum Photonics group. His research focuses on quantum optics of two dimensional materials, with a strong emphasis on optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated electrons in van der Waals heterostructures.