Spectral tuning of single T centres by the Stark effect
Abstract
Among the many solid-state emitters being explored for scalable quantum technologies, the silicon T centre is a leading candidate offering long-lived spin qubits, a telecommunications-band spin-photon interface, and integration with on-chip photonic circuits. However, nanophotonic integration broadens both the inhomogeneous spectral distribution and individual emitter linewidths. Here, we integrate single T centres into silicon nanophotonic cavities with p-i-n diodes for local electronic control. These devices enable Stark tuning up to 30 GHz, sufficient to bring 55(2)% of on-chip T centres into mutual resonance, and demonstrate tunable lifetime reduction across the cavity resonance. A model of the joint excitation probability shows an orders-of-magnitude increase in entanglement rate by tuning distinct emitters into mutual resonance. Luminescence modulation at high reverse biases reveals a transition to a dark charge state. Finally, bias-induced modulation of the optical transition splitting uncovers a potential mechanism for electrically driven excited-state spin mixing via spin-orbit coupling. Localized and individual spectral tuning increases the yield of performant silicon spin-photon interfaces and the number of devices per chip available for large-scale entanglement and quantum information technologies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.25170,
title = {Spectral tuning of single T centres by the Stark effect},
author = {Michael Dobinson and Felix Hufnagel and Simon A. Meynell and Camille Bowness and Melanie Gascoine and Walter Wasserman and Prasoon K. Shandilya and Christian Dangel and Michael L. W. Thewalt and Stephanie Simmons and Daniel B. Higginbottom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.25170},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
13 pages and 6 figures in main manuscript; 19 pages and 13 figures in supplementary information