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Englund group (MIT)

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Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Lab / Centre
Quantum Photonics Laboratory · Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Group website
https://qp.mit.edu/

Dirk Englund's MIT group works at the intersection of integrated quantum photonics and quantum networking. The programme covers colour-centre qubits (SiV, NV, SnV) heterogeneously integrated onto photonic chips, scalable photonic quantum-network nodes, on-chip microwave-to-optical transduction, and superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors. The group is a collaborator on the Boston-loop repeater demonstrations led from Harvard, and builds much of the photonic-integration plumbing that the wider Boston quantum- networking ecosystem runs on.

Current focus: Quantum photonics

Milestones

  1. 2024-05 Two-node entanglement over 35 km Boston-loop telecom fibre using SiV memory nodes (Knaut et al. Nature) paper
  2. 2023 Tin-vacancy (SnV) colour-centre integration with photonic devices blog
  3. 2020 SiV memory-enhanced quantum communication demonstration (with Harvard) paper

People

  • Dirk Englund — Principal Investigator — Director, Quantum Photonics Laboratory (since 2013)

Funding

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