Single photon emitter deterministically coupled to a topological corner state

Mujie Rao; Fulong Shi; Zhixuan Rao; Jiawei Yang; Changkun Song; Xiaodong Chen; Jianwen Dong; Ying Yu; Siyuan Yu

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01377-6

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Single photon emitter deterministically coupled to a topological corner state

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- Single photon emitter deterministically coupled to a topological corner state
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 1, Pages: 135-141(2024)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01377-6
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- Received：21 August 2023，
  
  Revised：21 December 2023，
  
  Accepted：2023-12-31，
  
  Published Online：17 January 2024，
  
  Published：2024-12
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Mujie Rao, Fulong Shi, Zhixuan Rao, et al. Single photon emitter deterministically coupled to a topological corner state[J]. Light: science & applications, 2024, 13(1): 135-141.
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Mujie Rao, Fulong Shi, Zhixuan Rao, et al. Single photon emitter deterministically coupled to a topological corner state[J]. Light: science & applications, 2024, 13(1): 135-141. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01377-6.

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Incorporating topological physics into the realm of quantum photonics holds the promise of developing quantum light emitters with inherent topological robustness and immunity to backscattering. Nonetheless

the deterministic interaction of quantum emitters with topologically nontrivial resonances remains largely unexplored. Here we present a single photon emitter that utilizes a single semiconductor quantum dot

deterministically coupled to a second-order topological corner state in a photonic crystal cavity. By investigating the Purcell enhancement of both single photon count and emission rate within this topological cavity

we achieve an experimental Purcell factor of F

= 3.7. Furthermore

we demonstrate the on-demand emission of polarized single photons

with a second-order autocorrelation function g

(2)

(0) as low as 0.024 ± 0.103. Our approach facilitates the customization of light-matter interactions in topologically nontrivial environments

thereby offering promising applications in the field of quantum photonics.

We achieve the first deterministic coupling of a topological corner state with a single quantum dot

observing Purcell enhancement and polarized single-photon emission. This extends the effect of higher-order topological phase into the quantum realm.

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