My research is in quantum photonics with solid-state quantum emitters. The strong coupling of solid-state emitters to optical light, along with their good coherence properties, makes them a promising platform for quantum communication applications.

I am focusing on the decoherence of these emitters due to lattice vibrations of the surrounding substrate, using numerical methods to model the decoherence dynamics. The unwanted effects of the phonon environment can be reduced by embedding the emitters in a nanophotonic cavity. I hope to explore this prospect further, in particular looking at the quantum dot biexciton – which can be used to generate entangled photon pairs – and using tensor network methods to model its non-Markovian dynamics.