Two-Dimensional Layered Materials: A New Platform for Quantum Information Science?

Описание: Dr. Xin Lu
2020 02 19
Emory University
Displaying new properties in low dimensions, atomically thin layered materials have been an attractive candidate for exploring exotic phenomena and novel device application for more than one decade. In particular, the valley physics in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) opens up exciting possibility for valleytronics which utilizes the optically addressable valley pseudospin. The study of valley has recently extended to quantum valleytronics and valley qubit since the discovery of quantum emitter from TMDC monolayer in 2015. Consequently, layered materials have been further expected to work as a new platform for quantum information science and technology, such as quantum simulation and quantum sensing. In this talk, I will begin by describing the basic properties of TMDC quantum emitters, which could arise from excitons localized by defect or strain. Subsequently, I will present the optical initialization of a single spin in singly, positively charged quantum dots (QDs) of monolayer WSe2. In addition to a single spin, I will also show that the TMDC QD can carry a single dipole by presenting our recent result on dipole-dipole interaction between localized interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterostructure. Finally, I will show our experimental result on the entanglement between single photons and chiral phonons.