JQI Special Seminar - Jelena Vuckovic

Date
Wed, Nov 12, 2025 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
ATL 2400

Description

Title:  Quantum technologies with semiconductor color centers in integrated photonics
Abstract:  Optically interfaced spin qubits based on diamond and silicon carbide color centers are
considered promising candidates for scalable quantum networks and sensors. However, they can
also be used to build chip-scale quantum many body systems with tunable all to all interactions
between qubits enabled by photonics - useful for quantum simulation and possibly computing.
Our recent efforts have focused on tin-vacancy (SnV-) color center in diamond where we have
shown high fidelity microwave control of an electron-spin at 1.7K temperature, high fidelity
single shot (optical) readout of an electron spin, high quality quantum photonic interface, and
even heterogeneous integration with lithium niobate for frequency conversion, making this color
center very interesting candidate for implementation of quantum networks. Moreover, our recent
demonstration of coherent and controlled interactions of multiple qubits (silicon vacancy - VSi
color centers) inside a single silicon carbide resonator has established these systems as promising
candidates  for  other quantum technologies, including quantum simulation and possibly even
quantum computing. 
We also show how chip-scale Ti:sapphire laser can replace commercial tabletop lasers in our
quantum optics experiments without any loss in performance, leading to truly scalable quantum
systems on chip.

Bio: Jelena Vuckovic (PhD Caltech 2002) is the Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership,
Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford. She is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max
Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Zeiss Award, Vannevar Bush
Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the
IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Mildred Dresselhaus Lectureship from MIT, and
the Humboldt Prize. She is a Fellow of the APS, Optica, and IEEE, a lead editor of Physical
Review Applied, and a co-founder and a lead scientific advisor of SPINS Photonics.