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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're hiring two full-time technical research scientists to support establishing Vancouver's metropolitan quantum network. If you have experience in quantum key or entanglement distribution then we want you to come work with us in beautiful Vancouver! tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/ca...

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

PhD student Nicholas Brunelle has just returned to us from ICPS 2026 in Tokyo, where he presented work from an upcoming manuscript reporting optical coherent population trapping in a silicon colour centre. Keep an eye out for the paper! pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/icp...

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Welcome to the SQT team Kyle MacRobbie! Kyle comes to us from the University of Waterloo and for his MSc research he'll be working on T centre devices including strain tuning and diodes.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Farewell to our delightful postdoc Simon Meynell, who is off to work with Patrice Bertet's group at CEA Paris-Saclay! It has been a pleasure working with him on T centre spectral diffusion and optical cluster states. Read Simon's paper on T centre spectral diffusion here: doi.org/10.1103/9dxr...

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

So proud of our PhD graduate Camille Bowness! She triumphantly defended her thesis "The Optical Dynamics of Cavity-Integrated T centres" and you can read it here: summit.sfu.ca/item/40468. Camille started her MSc with SQT even before I joined the lab! What will we do without her?

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In this new preprint we tune the emission frequency of single T centres integrated with optical cavities and a lateral diode. We're able to vary the emitter lifetime by spectral tuning, and to delay emission by controlled ionization. More tools in the kit for T devices! arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25170

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Students from our Silicon Quantum Technology Lab at Quantum Days 2026 in Victoria, BC. A big shout out to the conference organizers for bringing so many talented quantum folks together.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Congratulations to my PhD student Moein Kazemi for winning the top poster prize at Quantum Days 2026! Read our paper on this work here: doi.org/10.1103/4mpw...

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Delighted to present the recent work of our Silicon Quantum Technology lab at SFU at the Quantum Days conference in Victoria, BC today.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New PRL! We find a giant isotope effect in silicon T centres: swapping H → D massively boosts lifetime and emission efficiency. Great modelling from Mark Turiansky (NRL). Lead authors Moein Kazemi & Mehdi Keshavarz pictured in our lab at @sfuphysics.bsky.social. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

New paper out now in PRB! We discuss protecting T centre qubits during entanglement attempts. journals.aps.org/prb/abstract... Beautiful work by PhD student Nick Brunelle and SQT alumnus Joshua Kanaganyagam with collab by Geoffroy Hautier's team at Rice University and @photonicinc.bsky.social.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just in time for the holidays! arxiv.org/abs/2512.16047 Our PhD student Nicholas Brunelle measures the hyperfine coupling between the silicon T centre electron “communication” qubit and its H nuclear “memory” qubit—unlocking an unusual protection scheme against optically induced decoherence.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In our new PRX Quantum paper, PhD student Camille Bowness & postdoc Simon Meynell study spectral wandering of single colour centres in silicon nanocavities. We show wandering is mainly laser-induced, and narrow the effective excitation linewidth using a resonance-check scheme. go.aps.org/3IjO63h

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The Silicon Quantum Technology lab has arrived for the American Physical SocietyGlobal Physics Summit 2025 (#APSSummit25)! Look out for talks by our students Austin Woolverton and Michael Dobinson and postdoc Simon Meynell to get all the latest updates on silicon colour centre quantum technologies.

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Daniel Higginbottom @quantumdan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Check out our new preprint by PhD student Michael Dobinson! We demonstrate the first electrically-injected single-photon source with silicon colour centres and opto-electrically prepare a spin qubit. arxiv.org/abs/2501.10597 Big thanks to the SQT team and our industry partners Photonic Inc.

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