Sangha KimHarvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA _______________________________________ The negatively charged boron vacancy defect (VB?) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising platform for quantum technologies, particularly quantum sensing and quantum simulation. As a spin defect in a 2D material, VB? can be optically initialized and read out at room temperature, has a…
Tongcang LiPurdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana, USA_______________________________________ Optically active spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional van der Waals material, provide exciting opportunities for quantum information science and technology. Nuclear spins, with their significantly longer coherence times compared to electron spins, are also important quantum resources. In our earlier work, we demonstrated…
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.