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In the heart of a hexagonal nanowire integrated on Silicon, a quantum well tube glows, emitting streams of pure single photons.
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30/01/2026

Quantum light emission from nanowire tubes: a new source for Silicon-based photonic circuits

A novel quantum light source located inside a nanowire makes it to the front cover of ACS Nano!Quantum light sources bas...

Picture of the nonlinear optical cavity emitting green light
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15/10/2025

Observation of quantum-correlated twin beams in cascaded nonlinear interactions

In a pioneering experiment in the field of quantum optics, NQSTI researchers observed for the first time quantum-correla...

Experimental photonic platform
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07/03/2025

Quantum machine learning with Adaptive Boson Sampling via post-selection

A new work published in Nature Communications, Quantum machine learning with Adaptive Boson Sampling via post-selection ...

Theory and experimental measurements of the pump and the signal photon. The pump has a star sin- gularity structure generated with the superposition of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum of 0 and 1 ̄h values, and opposite-handedness circular polarization. The signal photon is measured with a lemon singularity structure when the idler photon is projected along the diagonal polarization.
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25/06/2024

Generation of heralded vector-polarized single photons in remotely controlled topological classes

We created a quantum source of photon pairs with polarization complex structures.The entangle property in the orbital an...

Sketch of the integrated photonic device and possible selection of different input probe states.
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07/04/2024

Variational quantum algorithm for experimental photonic multiparameter estimation

In a recent publication appeard on npj Quantum Information scientists from Sapienza University of Rome in a collaboratio...

a) Sample fabrication. A thick silicon on insulator (SOI) sample is implanted with carbon ions and recrystallized by annealing at high temperature. By optical lithography and chemical etching, membranes are formed and then SiN is deposited. b) Scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of SOI membranes before SiN deposition. c) SEM of a strained SOI membrane with SiN on top. d) Photoluminescence spectra from an ensemble of G-centers as a function of the membrane size.
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29/02/2024

Strain Engineering of the Electronic States of Silicon-Based Quantum Emitters

In a recent publication appeared on Advanced Optical Materials, scientists from an European collaboration led by prof. F...