news
Papers, awards, arrivals and events.
| Sep 2026 | Open call for PhD candidates: we support applications to the FPU and “la Caixa” INPhINIT fellowships — see join us. |
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| 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! |
| May 2026 | The first edition of the elective course “Quantum Information Technologies” is finished. |
| Apr 2026 | We launch the special issue Engineering scalable quantum photonic systems in Frontiers in Physics, with Stefano Azzini (lead), Niccolò Bigagli, Thibault Chervy and Andrew Young. |
| Feb 2026 | We celebrate the QLITES26 workshop in Oviedo. |
| Dec 2025 | We close the year with Juan's first publication — link to the paper. Congratulations! |
| Nov 2025 | New preprint with the group of Zhiliang Yuan: a Bell test with vacuum–one-photon states. |
| Sep 2025 | An amazing week at the XXI INC Summer School on Quantum Photonic Technologies. |
| Jun 2025 | Andrea wins the Best Poster Prize at the Spanish Conference on Nanophotonics. 🏆 |
| Jun 2025 | Alejandro aces his Bachelor thesis with Matrícula de Honor. |
| May 2025 | We welcome Christos Paspalides, the new FPI-IFIMAC PhD student working on interlayer excitons in 2D materials. |
| Apr 2025 | We announce the INC Summer School on quantum photonic technologies — pre-register here. |
| Apr 2025 | On 14 April, follow the Return of the QuanTour Source online. |
| Mar 2025 | Sang Kyu Kim (TUM) visits us again for a month. |
| Dec 2024 | INC Young Researchers Meeting in La Cristalera (Miraflores de la Sierra), with three posters: Juan, Andrea and Fito. |
| Nov 2024 | Two works published in Optica Quantum, with the groups of P. Senellart (CNRS) and T. Heindel (TU Berlin). |
| Sep 2024 | Kick-off meeting of the QuantERA project COMPHORT. |
| Jul 2024 | We offer an FPI PhD position within the newly funded national project on biphotonic sources — see join us. |
| Jul 2024 | Juan Vidal starts his PhD within the QuantERA consortium. Welcome! |
| Jun 2024 | Two-week stay at MajuLab-CQT in the lab of Maxime Richard, on resonantly driven exciton-polaritons. |
| Jun 2024 | Carlos receives the UAM Young Researchers Prize in Experimental Sciences. |
| May 2024 | The QuanTour in the UAM news, and interviews on Madrid Norte 24 Horas and Hoy por hoy (SER) (in Spanish). |
| Apr 2024 | Attending the BQIT24 conference in Bristol. |
| Mar 2024 | Our review “Solid-State Single-Photon Sources: Recent Advances for Novel Quantum Materials” is published in Advanced Functional Materials. |
| Feb 2024 | Seminar in the QMP Morning Coffee Seminar series, Universitat de València. |
| Jan 2024 | Sang Kyu Kim (group of Prof. K. Müller, TUM) visits us for a month. |
| Jan 2024 | Preprint with Pascale Senellart's group and Quandela: vacuum–one-photon superpositions in the delayed HOM peaks — arXiv. |
| Dec 2023 | Our project COMPHORT is approved for funding in the QuantERA 2023 call. |
| Dec 2023 | Review preprint on emergent solid-state single-photon sources — arXiv. |
| Dec 2023 | The Polaritonics feature issue of Optical Materials Express is out (G. Grosso, B. Pietka, D. Ballarini, A. Fainstein and C. Antón-Solanas, eds.). |
| Dec 2023 | Diego presents his poster on an actively phase-stabilised Mach-Zehnder for HOM interference at the INC Young Researchers Meeting 2023. |
| Dec 2023 | Evaluating candidates for the Quantum Grenoble Doctoral Programme. |
| Dec 2023 | Published in Optics Letters: multipartite entanglement in the photon-number basis. |
| Nov 2023 | Published in PRL: second-order coherence of polariton lasers in an atomically thin crystal. |
| Nov 2023 | Seminar by Dr. Tobias Huber (Würzburg) on quantum-dot photon sources for photonic quantum computing. |
| Sep 2023 | Published in Nano Letters: a monolayer single-photon source in a helium-free open cavity with 65% brightness. |
| May 2023 | Diego receives the INC 2023 Award. |
| Apr 2023 | Carlos receives a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation. |
| Apr 2023 | Project ULTRA-BRIGHT funded by the Fundación Ramón Areces. |