Spin-controlled generation of indistinguishable and distinguishable photons from silicon vacancy centres in silicon carbide

oleh: Naoya Morioka, Charles Babin, Roland Nagy, Izel Gediz, Erik Hesselmeier, Di Liu, Matthew Joliffe, Matthias Niethammer, Durga Dasari, Vadim Vorobyov, Roman Kolesov, Rainer Stöhr, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Nguyen Tien Son, Takeshi Ohshima, Péter Udvarhelyi, Gergő Thiering, Adam Gali, Jörg Wrachtrup, Florian Kaiser

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-05-01

Deskripsi

Defects in silicon carbide can act as single photon sources that also have the benefit of a host material that is already used in electronic devices. Here the authors demonstrate that they can control the distinguishability of the emitted photons by changing the defect spin state.