Sun Fangwen

Generation of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond with Ion Implantation

Nitrogen-vacancy defect color centers are created in a high purity single crystal diamond by nitrogen-ion implantation. Both optical spectrum and optically detected magnetic resonance are measured for these artificial quantum emitters. Moreover, with a suitable mask, a lattice composed of nitrogen-vacancy centers is fabricated. Rabi oscillation driven by micro-waves is carried out to show the quality of the ion implantation and potential in quantum manipulation. Along with compatible standard lithography, such an implantation technique shows high potential in future to make structures with nitrogen-vacancy centers for diamond photonics and integrated photonic quantum chip.

Whispering gallery mode optical microresonators: fundamentals and applications

Whispering Gallery mode micro-resonators have been widely applied in laser, bio-sensor and quantum physics experiments. This review will give an introduction to the basic properties and principles of those cavities. Also, the coupling with outer light is present. Based on recent worldwide progresses and research in University of Science and Technology of China, we introduced the detailed applications in modern scientific research with Whispering Gallery mode micro-resonators.

A survey on quantum information technology

After nearly three decades of rapid development, the quantum information technology in the theoretical and technical studies has gained remarkable achievements. This review gives a brief introduction to the development of various hot research branches of quantum information technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum metrology, and fundamental theory of quantum information. In addition, this review also discusses various physical systems which have been well applied in the quantum information technology, such as atomic, molecular and optical physics, different branches in solid state physics (superconducting Josephson Junction system, semiconductor quantum dots, Nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond), trapped ions, and nuclear magnetic resonance system. With the investigation and accumulation of quantum information technology, the ability to control microscopic world has been significantly improved. Quantum cryptography has been close to the practical application and the long-distance quantum communication has overcome the practical obstacles in principle. Quantum simulation is close to the limit of the classical computer. Also, quantum metrology has gained rapid development. This review not only shows the situation of the international development of quantum information technology, but also highlights the achievements of China in recent years. These achievements demonstrate that China is an indispensable force in the worldwide quantum information community.

Mechanism of directional emission from a peanut-shaped microcavity

Collimated directional emission is essentially required for an asymmetric resonant cavity. In this paper, we theoretically investigate a type of peanut-shaped microcavity which can support highly directional emission with a beam divergence as small as 2.5 deg. The mechanism of the collimated emission of this type of peanut-shaped microcavity is explained with a short-term ray trajectory. Moreover, the explanations are also confirmed by a numerical wave simulation. This extremely narrow divergence of the emission holds great potential in highly collimated lasing from on-chip microcavities.

Magnetic Field Measurement with Heisenberg Limit Based on Solid Spin NOON State

The maximum entangled number state (NOON state) can improve the sensitivity of physical quantity measurement to the Heisenberg limit 1/N. In this work, the magnetic field measurement based on the individual solid spin NOON state is investigated. Based on the tunable effective coupling coefficient, we propose a generation scheme of the three-spin NOON state, i.e, the Greenberger—Horne—Zeilinger (GHZ) state, and discussed the measurement resolution reduction due to decoherence. It is unnecessary to entangle spins as many as possible when decoherence exists. In practice, defect spins in diamond and 31P donors with long coherence time can be applied with current techniques in the nano-scaled high resolution magnetic measurement.

A Four-Dimensional Measurement Scheme for Single Photon Time-Polarization ⁄

We propose an experimental scheme to realize the four-dimensional projective measurements for a single photon. The photon polarization and time—energy provide the four-dimensional Hilbert space. Based on this scheme, we suggest an experiment to test the violation of Bell inequalities of four-dimensional systems. In addition, by virtue of a maximally entangled biphoton state, we also show that it is possible to construct a quantum key distribution channel that can provide two-bit key with one pair of entangled photons.

Measurement of Ultra-Short Single-Photon Pulse Duration with Two-Photon Interference *

We proposed a protocol of measuring the duration of ultra-short single-photon pulse with two-photon interference. The pulse duration can be obtained from the width of the visibility of two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference or the indistinguishability of the two photons. Moreover, the shape of a single-photon pulse can be measured with ultra-short single-photon pulses through the two-photon interference.