POEM
Photon cOrrelation from interlayer Excitons in Moiré heterobilayers
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An experimental research line of the SemicUAM group @ Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · IFIMAC · Instituto Nicolás Cabrera
Welcome to the QOSS lab — Quantum Optics in the Solid State. QOSS is the research line in experimental quantum photonics that Dr. Carlos Antón-Solanas started in 2022 within the SemicUAM group of the Department of Physics of Materials, UAM, with a young team of PhD, master’s and bachelor’s students.
We engineer non-classical light from solid-state quantum emitters — semiconductor quantum dots, defects in hexagonal boron nitride, excitons in 2D materials and exciton-polaritons — and use it for quantum communication, metrology and imaging.
We are always looking for motivated students and researchers: see join us.
Research topics
- Quantum optics with single photons
- Photon statistics, Hong-Ou-Mandel interference
- Photon-number entanglement and superpositions
- Quantum materials
- hBN defects at room temperature
- Moiré and interlayer excitons in TMD heterobilayers
- Cavity QED & polaritons
- Open Fabry-Pérot microcavities
- Topological and spin-polarised polariton lattices
- Quantum communication, imaging & metrology
news all news →
| Sep 2026 | 🏆 COMPHORT wins the Social Media Impact award of IQ – Impact of QuantERA, presented at the QuantERA Strategic Conference in Basel on 29 September. Thanks to everyone who watched and shared our video! |
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| Sep 2026 | Open call for PhD candidates: we support applications to the FPU and “la Caixa” INPhINIT fellowships — see join us. |
| Sep 2026 | Carlos gives the lecture “Advanced Quantum Communications” at the DPG Physics School on Applied Photonics in Bad Honnef — from photon detection to QKD with true single-photon sources. A fantastic week with a brilliant, curious audience! |
| Sep 2026 | Pablo Pérez Casares defends his master thesis on the dipole orientation of quantum emitters in hBN with a 9.2/10. Congratulations, Pablo! |
| Jul 2026 | Publication from Andrea's results: “Spin-polarized lasing in a photonic lattice”, Opt. Mater. Express. |
| Jun 2026 | Samuel and Izan win two of the INC Research Awards for Physics Students 2026. Congrats! |
selected publications all publications →
- Adv. Funct. Mater.Adv. Funct. Mater. e32019 (2026)
- OMEx
- PRRPhys. Rev. Research 8, L012039 (2026)
- ACS Photon.ACS Photonics 13, 282 (2026)
