Atomic-scale defects in crystals can make excellent quantum memories that can be written and read out using lasers, and could form the basis of future quantum communications and computing systems. Creating these defects “on demand” and engineering memory chips with arrays of defects is very challenging.

In this webinar, Jason Smith will talk about the methods used, the current state of the art, and what we are learning along the way.

Jason Smith is professor of photonic materials and devices at the University of Oxford, and founding editor-in-chief of the new IOP Publishing journal Materials for Quantum Technology. His research focuses on engineering materials and devices in which photons and electrons communicate in controlled ways, as a means to develop new technologies in sensing, communications and computing.