Chong ZuWashington University at St. Louis – St. Louis, Missouri, USA_______________________________________ The recent discovery of optical spin defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as boron-vacancy center (VB) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), presents a brand-new angle to construct solid-state quantum sensors. In principle, the atomic-thin structure of the host materials can enable the spin qubits to…
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.