Our new Montana system got successfully installed today, adding to four cryostat already operating in the lab. Looking forward to start experiments on spins in silicon carbide!

Muhammad Junaid Arshad has joined us from Lahore, Pakistan. He will be building an adaptive quantum magnetometer with spins in diamond. Welcome, Muhammad, and good luck!

Dr Margherita Mazzera, previously at ICFO in Barcelona, has recently joined us. Margherita will expand the group activity by setting up a new lab to develop new platforms for integrated quantum storage devices based on rare earth ion doped solids. PhD positions are available! For more information please contact Margherita Mazzera (m.mazzera@hw.ac.uk).

Cristian Bonato has been awarded a prestigious fellowship by EPSRC. The award, worth >£1M, will allow us to study spins in SiC, to demonstrate a quantum memory device for quantum networking. There are post-doc positions available on this topic: if interested, please get in touch!

We are looking for two post-docs to join our group, one on SiC quantum spintronics, the other on quantum optics in 2D materials. Check our “Openings” for more info.

We are just back from Chicheley Hall, where we have organized a workshop on SiC quantum spintronics, together with Sang-Yun Lee (KAUST, Korea) and Joerg Wrachtrup (Stuttgart). The event was a great opportunity to bring together quantum physicists with materials growers, device engineers and industry, to develop quantum technologies in this material. For more info: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2018/11/sic-quantum-spintronics/…

Team members of the Quantum Photonics Lab went out to Glasgow to run the half marathon. Good job Raphael, Mauro, Brian, Artur and Cristian!

With collaborators in Germany, Korea, Sweden and the US, we studied the V1 line associated with the silicon vacancy in SiC. Our work, published in Physical Review Applied, shows more than 40% optical emission in the zero-phonon line and spin coherence up to 0.6 msec (for an ensemble). These features are very promising for spin-photon…

Our project on spin control on SiC photonic structures, sponsored by the Royal Society, is starting today!

Daniel White joined us today, to start a PhD on the study of spin-active defects in SiC embedded in photonic and electronic devices. For this, he will build a new setup in our newly-refurbished lab, DB2.14. Good luck, Daniel!