Photonic Integration in general, and Quantum Photonic Integrated Circuits (QPICs) in particular, are considered as an enabler for quantum technology. Conversely, quantum technology is regarded as a major emerging market for photonic integration. The Quantum Flagship and the Photonics21 ETP formed a joint Focus Group on the topic with the aim of making QPICs a […]
An international team of researchers reports in Nature Physics on how light and electrons move in concert in the material when illuminated with infrared light. When two layers of graphene are placed one on top of the other and twisted among them by a very small angle, a “moiré pattern” is formed and the physical […]
An international team of researchers reports in Science having been able to achieve a new way to detect a single photon with the help of 2D materials. An international team of scientists from Raytheon BBN Technologies, MIT, Harvard University, Pohang University of Science and Technology, ICFO with the participation of researcher Prof. Dima Efetov, and […]
Scientists from ICFO, Princeton and NIMS have discovered a full sequence of symmetry broken Chern insulators which are induced by strong correlations in magic angle graphene. The study has been published in Nature Physics. A Chern insulator is a 2D insulator which spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry and hosts conducting chiral edge states. The study […]
Strong and rapidly tunable interaction between emitters and graphene. Crystals doped with rare-earth ions, such as erbium (Er3+), play an important role for existing and future technologies. For example, erbium-doped fibers are crucial for optical communications systems carrying information as optical signals over long distances. Rare-earth ions furthermore have several properties that make them […]
A team of scientists led by ICFO researchers develop a set of entirely novel knobs to control correlated electrons and demonstrate that superconductivity can exist without insulating phases in Magic Angle Twisted Bi-layer Graphene. If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them at an angle of […]
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