Welcome to the Quantum Defects and Photonics (QDP) Laboratory!

We are a research group working on quantum defects and quantum photonics in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Our lab explores defect-based spins in silicon with telecom optical interfaces as qubits for quantum information processing towards quantum networking and computing applications. We develop novel quantum optical and spin control techniques and protocols to manipulate the quantum states of the qubits and engineer interactions between them. On a system level, we aim to build hybrid integrated silicon quantum photonic chips consisting of spin-based quantum memories and other photonic circuit elements, as multiplexed quantum registers and repeaters, for realizing scalable hybrid quantum networks to connect different quantum systems.