Location: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George St, Edinburgh EH2 2PQ and Heriot-Watt University Campus, Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
When: 29th June – 1st July 2022
Programme:
Wednesday, 29th of June – Royal Society of Edinburgh
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title | Modality |
| 9:00 | Registration | |||
| 9:20 | Margherita Mazzera | HWU | Welcome | In person |
| 9:30 | Thierry Chaneliere | Institut Néel | Superhyperfine induced decoherence in Y2SiO5 | In person |
| 10:00 | Matthew Berrington | Australian National University | Negative refractive index in stoichiometric erbium crystals | In person |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 | Daniel Oblak | University of Calgary | Low temperature spectroscopy and cavity assisted quantum memory and superradiance in rare-earth doped materials | In person |
| 11:30 | Diana Serrano | Chimie Paristech – CNRS | Progress on rare-earth thin films for optical quantum technologies | In person |
| 11:50 | Maria Alejandra Arranz Martinez | Chimie Paristech – CNRS | Er3+ doped Y2O3 thin films for quantum technologies | In person |
| 12:10 | Nir Alfasi | TU Delft | Towards an optical interface between NV centers and rare-earth ion solid-state memories | In person |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 | Jevon Longdell | University of Otago | Hybrid quantum systems with dopants and fully concentrated crystals | In person |
| 14:30 | Nadezhda Kukharchyk | Walther-Meissner-Institut | Cavity-free microwave spectral hole burning in Erbium-doped Y2SiO5 and 7LiYF4 below 1K | Online (+1) |
| 15:00 | Joseph Alexander | UCL | Coherent spin dynamics of rare-earth doped crystals in the high-cooperativity regime | In person |
| 15:20 | Tian Xie | Caltech | On-chip Rare-Earth Ion based Microwave-to-Optical Transducer | Online (-8) |
| 15:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:15 | Timon Eichhorn | KIT | Cavity-enhanced Spectroscopy of REI-doped Nanomaterials | In person |
| 16:35 | Sebastian Horvath | Princeton | Coherence Properties of Single Erbium Ions in MgO and CaWO4 | In person |
| 16:55 | Shobhit Gupta | University of Chicago | Scalable and long-lived rare-earth qubits in nanomaterials | Online (-6) |
| 17:15 | Andrei Ruskuc | Caltech | Generation of GHZ states in a nuclear spin ensemble coupled to a 171Yb3+ qubit | In person |
| 17:35 | Mi Lei | Caltech | Narrow transparency and collective emission in 171Yb:YVO coupled to a nanophotonic cavity | Online (-9) |
Thrusday 30th of June – Royal Society of Edinburgh
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title | Modality |
| 9:00 | Anne Louchet-Chauvet | Institut Langevin, ESPCI CNRS | Rare-earth ions doped nanocrystals as a versatile platform for levitated optomechanics | Online (+1) |
| 9:30 | Cyril Laplane | Macquarie University | Optomechanical backaction processes in a bulk rare-earth doped crystal | Online (+9) |
| 9:50 | Bess Fang | SYRTE : Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace | Measurements of electric-field induced frequency displacements | Online (+1) |
| 10:10 | Signe Seidelin | Université Grenoble Alpesa and Institut Néel | Novel detection schemes for laser frequency stabilization with spectral hole burning in REIDC | Online (+1) |
| 10:20 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:00 | Zong-Quan Zhou | USTC | Towards long-lived photonic quantum memories | Online (+7) |
| 11:30 | Markus Stabel | TU Darmstadt | Confining atomic populations in space via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage | In person |
| 11:50 | Marcel Hain | TU Darmstadt | Few-Photon Storage on a Second Timescale by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Pr:YSO | In person |
| 12:10 | Adam Kinos | Lund University | High-connectivity quantum processor nodes – Impact on rare-earth quantum computing | In person |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00 | Moritz Businger | University of Geneva | Remote distribution of non-classical correlations over 1250 modes between a telecom photon and a Yb:YSO crystal | In person |
| 14:20 | Adrian Holzäpfel | University of Geneva | Memory-integrated time-bin qudit projections | In person |
| 14:40 | Dario Lago-Rivera | ICFO | Multiplexed quantum teleportation from a telecom qubit to a matter qubit through 1 km of optical fibre | In person |
| 15:00 | Sara Marzban | TU Delft | Towards a quantum memory based on an excited-state absorption in Tm:YAP | In person |
| 15:20 | Tanmoy Chakraborty | TU Delft | Frequency multiplexed entangled photon pairs and detectors for quantum repeaters | In person |
| 15:40-16:15 | Coffee break | |||
| 16:30 | Online poster session | |||
| 19:30 | Social dinner |
Friday 1st of July – Heriot-Watt University
| Time | Name | Affiliation | Title | Modailty |
| 9:30 | Finnian Smith | University of Otago | Measuring magnetostriction of antiferromagnetic concentrated rare earth crystals below the Neel temperature | Online (+11) |
| 9:50 | Zhiren Wang | University of Paris Saclay | Single spin resonance by microwave photon counting | Online (+1) |
| 10:10 | Loic Morvan | Thales | Ultra-wide band Tm:YAG RF signals processor : from laboratory experiments to field demonstrations | In person |
| 10:20 | Coffee break with posters in person | |||
| 11:00 | Chunming Yin | USTC | Time-resolved photoionisation detection of single erbium ions in silicon | Online (+9) |
| 11:30 | Alexander Ulanowski | Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics | Spectroscopy and control of single erbium ions | In person |
| 11:50 | Johannes Früh | Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics | Narrow optical transitions in erbium-implanted silicon waveguides | In person |
| 12:10 | Eduardo Beattie | ICFO | Detection of single erbium ions in nanoparticles | In person |
| 12:20 | Ori Mor | Weizmann Institute of Science | Tapered optical fibers coated with Rare-Earth complexes for quantum applications | In person |
| 12:50 | Lunch break with posters in person | |||
| 14:00 | Cristian Bonato | HWU | Adaptive learning for spin-based quantum technology | In person |
| 14:30 | Charlotte Pignol | Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS | Decoherence mechanisms in non-Kramers rare-earth doped crystals | In person |
| 14:50 | Hafsa Syed | Lund University | Microscopic modelling of spin flip-flop rates | In person |
| 15:10 | Stefano Duranti | ICFO | Highly efficient qubit storage in an atomic-frequency-comb-based quantum memory | Online (+1) |
| 15:30 | Margherita Mazzera | HWU | Closing remarks | In person |
| 15:40 | Coffee break | |||
| 16:15 | Lab tours |
Sponsors
Poster Presentations
| Number | Name | Affiliation | Title |
| 1 | Abdullah Shehata Abdelmonaem Abdelatief | Lund University | Towards single rare Earth ion detection in microcavity for quantum information applications |
| 2 | Adam Turflinger | Princeton University | Probing rare-earth ions and spin waves for microwave-to-optical transduction |
| 3 | Ana Strinic | Walther-Meissner-Institute | Microwave spectroscopy and relaxation in 167Er:7LiYF4 at near-zero magnetic field and sub-Kelvin temperatures |
| 4 | Antariksha Das | TU Delft | Cavity-enhanced Light-matter Interface in a Thulium-doped Solid-state Crystal |
| 5 | Chun-Ju Wu | Caltech | Coherent optical control of single 171Yb ions in YVO4 coupled to a GaAs hybrid photonic crystal cavity |
| 6 | David Gustavsson/ Marcus Lindén | Lund University | Slow Light Laser Stabilization |
| 7 | Evgenij Vasilenko | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Cavity-enhanced spectroscopy of molecular quantum emitters |
| 8 | Faezeh Kimiaee Asadi | University of Calgary | Microwave to optical photon conversion via 167Er:YSO at a zero magnetic field |
| 9 | Gavin King | University of Otago | Microwave to Optical Frequency Conversion with Rare Earth Ions |
| 10 | Giacomo Corrielli | Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR) | Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of rare earth crystals for quantum memory applications |
| 11 | Jake Davidson | TU Delft | Spectral Hole Dynamics on Short and Long Timescales in Tm:YGG |
| 12 | Jannis Hessenauer | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Towards cavity-enhanced spectroscopy of Yb3+ in nanocrystals and molecular materials |
| 13 | Lothaire Ulrich | Thales Research and Technology | Selective and agile RF filtering using the coherence of rare-earth ions |
| 14 | Luke Trainor | University of Otago | Optically detected magnetic resonance in an Er:YSO whispering-gallery resonator |
| 15 | Marouane KHLIFA | Institut de Physique de Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS | Ridge waveguide architecture for solid-state quantum memories |
| 16 | Matthew Berrington | Australian National University | Erbium lithium fluoride for a microwave-optical transduction |
| 17 | Muhammad Junaid Arshad | Heriot-Watt University | An Adaptive Spin-based Quantum Magnetometer |
| 18 | Nicholas Jobbitt | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Crystal-Field Analyses and the Transferability of Parameters in Lanthanide-doped Y2SiO5 |
| 19 | Pasquale Cilibrizzi | Heriot-Watt University | Single Vanadium Centres in SiC |
| 20 | Sacha Welinski | Thales Research and Technology | Stable and low-spurious laser source for fast addressing multiple optical qubits spread over a 100 GHz bandwidth |
| 21 | Sean Keenan/Wei Jiang | Heriot-Watt University | A proposal for a large bandwidth telecom quantum memory |
| 22 | Sören Bieling | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Towards coherent single praseodymium ion quantum memories in optical fiber microcavities |
| 23 | Théo Sanchez | University of Geneva | Difference Frequency Generation and Spectral Filtering for Quantum Frequency Conversion |
| 24 | Yashar Alizadeh | Heriot-Watt University | Towards a gradient Echo Memory in a Laser-inscribed Waveguide in Praseodymium-doped Yttrium Orthosilicate Crystal |
| 25 | Yong Yu | TU Delft | Rare-earth ions in nanocavities as a quantum information platform |
Rare Earth Ion Doped Crystals for Quantum Information 