Ripin Adina, Peng Ruoming, Zhang Xiaowei, Chakravarthi Srivatsa, He Minhao, Xu Xiaodong, Fu Kai-Mei, Cao Ting, Li Mo
Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nat Nanotechnol. 2023 Sep;18(9):1020-1026. doi: 10.1038/s41565-023-01410-6. Epub 2023 Jun 1.
Engineering the coupling between fundamental quantum excitations is at the heart of quantum science and technologies. An outstanding case is the creation of quantum light sources in which coupling between single photons and phonons can be controlled and harnessed to enable quantum information transduction. Here we report the deterministic creation of quantum emitters featuring highly tunable coupling between excitons and phonons. The quantum emitters are formed in strain-induced quantum dots created in homobilayer WSe. The colocalization of quantum-confined interlayer excitons and terahertz interlayer breathing-mode phonons, which directly modulates the exciton energy, leads to a uniquely strong phonon coupling to single-photon emission, with a Huang-Rhys factor reaching up to 6.3. The single-photon spectrum of interlayer exciton emission features a single-photon purity >83% and multiple phonon replicas, each heralding the creation of a phonon Fock state in the quantum emitter. Due to the vertical dipole moment of the interlayer exciton, the phonon-photon interaction is electrically tunable to be higher than the exciton and phonon decoherence rate, and hence promises to reach the strong-coupling regime. Our result demonstrates a solid-state quantum excitonic-optomechanical system at the atomic interface of the WSe bilayer that emits flying photonic qubits coupled with stationary phonons, which could be exploited for quantum transduction and interconnection.
设计基本量子激发之间的耦合是量子科学与技术的核心。一个突出的例子是量子光源的创建,其中单光子与声子之间的耦合可以被控制和利用,以实现量子信息转导。在此,我们报告了确定性地创建具有激子与声子之间高度可调耦合的量子发射器。这些量子发射器形成于同质双层WSe中产生的应变诱导量子点。量子限制层间激子与太赫兹层间呼吸模式声子的共定位直接调制激子能量,导致与单光子发射具有独特的强声子耦合,黄昆-里斯因子高达6.3。层间激子发射的单光子光谱具有大于83%的单光子纯度和多个声子复制品,每个复制品都预示着量子发射器中声子福克态的产生。由于层间激子的垂直偶极矩,声子-光子相互作用在电学上可调节至高于激子和声子的退相干速率,因此有望进入强耦合 regime。我们的结果展示了一个位于WSe双层原子界面的固态量子激子-光机械系统,该系统发射与静止声子耦合的飞行光子量子比特,可用于量子转导和互连。