People: Dirk Englund

MIT
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Cambridge, MA 02139
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Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Publications
  1. E. Bersin, M. Sutula, Y.Q. Huan, A. Suleymanzade, P.-J. Stas, C. Knaut, Y.-C. Wei, E. Knall, D. Sukachev, D. Levonian, M. Bhaskar, M. Lukin, D. Englund, M. Grein, R. Murphy, M. Stevens, C. Lee, R. Riedinger, D. J. Starling, N. Sinclair, D. R. Assumpcao, B. Machielse, M. Loncar, S. Hamilton, and P. B. Dixon. Development of a Boston-area 50-km fiber quantum network testbed. Phys. Rev. Applied, 21(014024), January 2024.
  2. E. Bersin, M. Sutula, Y.Q. Huan, A. Suleymanzade, Y.-C. Wei, P.-J. Stas, C. Knaut, E. Knall, D. Sukachev, D. Levonian, M. Bhaskar, H. Park, D. Englund, M. Lukin, D. R. Assumpcao, C. Langrock, N. Sinclair, R. Murphy, R. Riedinger, M. Yeh, C. J. Xin, S. Bandyopadhyay, B. Machielse, S. Hamilton, M. Lončar, M. M. Fejer, and P. B. Dixon. Telecom networking with a diamond quantum memory. PRX Quantum, 5(010303), January 2024.
  3. E. Bersin, D. Englund, Y. Lee, A. Dahlberg, and S. Wehner. A Quantum Router Architecture for High-Fidelity Entanglement Flows in Multi-User Quantum Networks. npj Quantum Information, 8(75), June 2023.
  4. H. Wang, M. Trusheim, L. Kim, H. Raniwala, D. Englund, Field programmable spin arrays for scalable quantum repeaters. Nature Communications, 14(704), February 2023.
  5. H. Raniwala, S. Krastanov, D. Englund, M. Trusheim, L. Hackett, and M. Eichenfield. Piezoelectric Nanocavity Interface for Strong Coupling between a Superconducting Circuit, Phonon, and Spin. Physical Review Applied, 19(064051), June 2023.
  6. H. Raniwala, K. Chen, L. Li, D. Englund, D. A. Golter, G. Clark, T. El Dandachi, S. Krastanov, A. J. Leenheer, N. H. Wan, M. Zimmerman, M. Dong, M. Eichenfield, and G. Gilbert. Selective and Scalable Control of Spin Quantum Memories in a Photonic Circuit. Nano Lett., 23(17):7852–7858, August 2023.
  7. H. Raniwala, S. Krastanov, D. Englund, and Matt Eichenfield. A spin-optomechanical quantum interface enabled by an ultrasmall mechanical and optical mode volume cavity. ArXiv 2022.
  8. M. Trusheim, D. Englund, Hanfeng Wang, and Laura Kim. Electric-Field Programmable Spin Arrays for Scalable Quantum Repeaters. ArXiv 2022.
  9. H. Raniwala, S. Krastanov, D. Englund, M. Trusheim, Lisa Hackett, and Matt Eichenfield. Spin-Phonon-Photon Strong Coupling in a Piezomechanical Nanocavity. ArXiv 2022.
  10. K. Chen, E. Bersin, D. Englund, A Polarization Encoded Photon-to-Spin Interfaces. npj Quantum Information , 7(2), January 2021.
  11. H. Choi, M. Trusheim, D. Englund, and L. Kim. Absorption-Based Diamond Spin Microscopy on a Plasmonic Quantum Metasurface. ACS Photonics November 2021.
  12. N. Wan, M. Trusheim, K. Chen, L. De Santis, D. Englund, D. Gangloff, R. Debroux, C. P. Michaels, C. Purser, J. A. Martínez, R. A. Parker, A. M. Stramma, E. M. Alexeev, A. C. Ferrari, and A. Atatüre. Quantum control of the tin-vacancy spin qubit in diamond. Phys. Rev. X , 11(041041), November 2021.
  13. M. Trusheim, D. Englund, K. Jacobs, J. E. Hoffman, D. P. Fahey, and D. A. Braje. A Polariton-Stabilized Spin Clock. ArXiv September 2020.
  14. M. Bhaskar, B. Machielse, D. Levonian, C. Nguyen, E. Knall, P. Stroganov, H. Park, D. Englund, D. Sukachev, M. Lukin, R. Riedinger, and M. Loncar. Experimental demonstration of memory-enhanced quantum communication. Nature, 580:60–64, 2020.
  15. H. Moon, E. Bersin, G. Grosso, D. Englund, C. Chakraborty, A.-Y. Lu, and J. Kong. Strain-correlated Localized Exciton Energy in Atomically Thin Semiconductors. ACS Photonics, 7(5):1135–1140, April 2020.
  16. M. Trusheim, N. Wan, L. De Santis, D. Gangloff, K. Chen, M. Walsh, E. Bersin, D. Lyzwa, D. Englund, B. Pingault, M. Gündoğan, R. Debroux, C. Purser, J. J. Rose, J. N. Becker, B. Lienhard, I. Paradeisanos, G. Wang, A. R-P. Montblanch, G. Malladi, H. Bakhru, A. C. Ferrari, A. Walmsley, and M. Atatüre. Transform-limited photons from a tin-vacancy spin in diamond. Phys. Rev. Lett., 124(023602), January 2020.
  17. D. Kim, A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, M. Lukin, D. Englund, Large-Scale Uniform Optical Focus Array Generation with a Phase Spatial Light Modulator. Optics Letters 2019.
  18. D. Kim, A. Keesling Contreras, A. Omran, H. Levine, H. Bernien, M. Greiner, M. Lukin, D. Englund, Large-Scale Uniform Optical Focus Array Generation with a Phase Spatial Light Modulator,. Optics Letters, 44(12):3178-3181, 2019.
  19. M. Trusheim, N. Wan, K. Chen, E. Bersin, M. Walsh, D. Englund, C. J. Ciccarino, R. Sundararaman, G. Malladi, B. Lienhard, H. Bakhru, and P. Narang. Lead-Related Quantum Emitters in Diamond. Phys. Rev. B, 99(075430), 2019.
  20. M. Walsh, E. Bersin, S. Mouradian, D. Englund, S. B. V. Dam, M. J. Degen, A. Galiullin, M. Ruf, M. IJspeert, T. H. Taminiau, and R. Hanson. Optical coherence of diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers formed by ion implantation and annealing. Phys. Rev. B, 99(161203), 2019.
  21. L. Marseglia, K. Saha, A. Ajoy, D. Englund, P. Cappellaro, T. Schröder, F. Jelezko, R. Walsworth, J. L. Pacheco, D. L. Perry, and E. S. Bielejec. Bright nanowire single photon source based on SiV centers in diamond. Optics Express, 26:80-89, 2018.
  22. A. Sipahigil, R. Evans, D. Sukachev, C. Nguyen, M. Lukin, D. Englund, T. Schroder, M.E. Trusheim, M. Walsh, L. Li, J. Zheng, M. Scjukraft, J.L. Pacheco, R. Camacho, and E.S. Bielejec. Scalable Focused Ion Beam Creation of Nearly Lifetime-Limited Single Quantum Emitters in Diamond Nanostructures. Nature Communications, 8, May 2017.
  23. D. Englund, B. Shields, H. Park, M. Lukin, Kelley Rivoire, Fariba Hatami, and Jelena Vuckovic. A Scanning Cavity Nanoscope. submitted to Nano Letters 2010.
  24. D. Englund, B. Shields, H. Park, M. Lukin, Kelley Rivoire, Fariba Hatami, and Jelena Vuckovic. A Scanning Cavity Nanoscope. Submitted 2010 2010.
News
Fri December 15, 2023

Scalable Quantum Memory Control in Photonic Circuits

In a study published in “Nano Letters,” MIT and MITRE researchers describe an important advance in controlling spin quantum memories in photonic circuits. Their paper, “Selective and Scalable Control of Spin Quantum Memories in a Photonic Circuit,” offers a new approach for individual-qubit control even when the system is “under-actuated” — i.e., the number of...
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Research Highlights
Thu October 19, 2023

Harvard-MIT CUA Receives Major Renewal Grant

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Physics Frontiers Centers program renewed a grant to the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) to fund exploring, understanding, and harnessing mysterious phenomena at the frontiers of physics. The CUA, which works to enable greater control and programmability of quantum-entangled systems of low-temperature atoms and molecules, will conduct experiments involving...
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CUA in the News
Tue October 17, 2023

Professor Dirk Englund Awarded Humboldt Fellowship

Professor Dirk Englund received a Humbold Award in 2023 after being nominated by both the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
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Awards
Tue April 11, 2023

Field programmable spin arrays for scalable quantum repeaters

 In the progress report, it was noted that for “quantum computational advantage” in harnessing many-body quantum stages with spins, large scale control over thousands of spin qubits and their interaction was needed, but was limited by power consumption and cross-talk inherent in current microwave techniques. To this end, we analyzed the problem from first principles...
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Research Highlights
Sun November 20, 2022

Photonic Circuits to Program Atoms at Scale

How do we control large numbers of qubits? This is a question being asked across quantum information science, including for atomic qubits. Unlike other varieties of qubits—such as superconducting qubits, where control signals are primarily electrical—atomic qubits are controlled by beams of light. Individual control over each atomic qubit requires modulating many individual optical beams....
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Sat September 5, 2020

A Polariton-Stabilized Spin Clock

Figure: A polaritonic-stabilized spin clock. The reference probe field at frequency ω with intensity I is is split into a local oscillator and probe. The latter is sent to the resonant system, which consists of NV centers in diamond with population relaxation rate γ coupled to a microwave cavity at rate g. Atomic clocks are...
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Wed July 8, 2020

Scalable assembly of artificial atoms in photonic chips

A central goal in quantum information processing is the development of scalable quantum processors and quantum networks. Towards this end, solid-state “artificial atoms” such as colour centres in diamond are especially promising because they combine efficient optical interfaces, minutes of spin coherence, and potentially very-large-scale fabrication. Indeed, in the past 20 years of quantum engineering,...
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Research Highlights
Tue January 14, 2020

Transform-limited photons from a tin-vacancy spin in diamond

One of the goals of the CUA is to develop quantum networks: systems of stationary quantum memories connected by photons. Solid-state quantum emitters that combine coherent optical transitions, long-lived spin states, and the potential for scalability are critical components of future quantum information systems. Many emitters are candidates, with some desirable properties, but all have...
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Past Events
Tue February 7, 2017 4:00 pm

Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing

Location:MIT 4-270
Dirk Englund

The field of quantum optics offers new ways to compute, communicate, and measure with quantum states. Recent advances in materials, quantum control, and nanofabrication now open the prospect for scalable quantum technologies based on solid-state quantum systems. In particular, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) now allow routing photons with high precision and low loss, and atom-like systems in semiconductors enable spin-based quantum memories that can be coupled to these optical circuits. The first part of this talk will review our recent progress in adapting one of the leading PIC architectures—silicon photonics—for various quantum secure communications protocols. The second part of the talk will consider how PIC technology, integrated with quantum memories, can extend the reach of quantum communications and form the basis of modular quantum computers.

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CUA Seminar Series
Mon August 24, 2020 12:00 am

Boston Museum of Science “Ask a Scientist”

Location:Virtual
Dirk Englund
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From the Museum of Science: What have you always wanted to know about quantum physics but have never had a chance to ask? We’ve invited a panel of guest scientists from MIT and UC Berkeley to answer your questions and talk about how quantum physics is bringing about a technological revolution. Join us LIVE for...
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