A research team at QuTech—a collaborative institute between the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)—has demonstrated a highly efficient and coherent light-matter interface linking a diamond-based quantum emitter to photons trapped inside a nanoscopic optical cavity. Published in the journal Physical Review X (PRX) and supervised by principal investigator Prof. Ronald Hanson, the hardware milestone resolves a long-standing bottleneck in quantum information infrastructure: achieving reliable, low-noise handshakes between stationary solid-state matter qubits and flying photonic qubits. Beyond accelerating remote entanglement distribution across long-range quantum internet nodes, the scalable nanophotonic architecture provides a [...]

A collaborative research group consisting of quantum information scientists from Quandela, the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the University…

A QuTech team demonstrated a scalable nanophotonic interface between diamond quantum emitters and optical cavities for future quantum networks.