Tailoring polarization in WSe2 quantum emitters through deterministic strain engineering
Athanasios Paralikis, Claudia Piccinini, Abdulmalik A. Madigawa, Pietro Metuh, Luca Vannucci, Niels Gregersen, Battulga Munkhbat
Abstract
Quantum emitters in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a promising platform for generating single photons for optical quantum information processing. In this work, we present an approach for deterministically controlling the polarization of fabricated quantum emitters in a tungsten diselenide (WSe 2 ) monolayer. We employ novel nanopillar geometries with long and sharp tips to induce a controlled directional strain in the monolayer, and we report on fabricated WSe 2 emitters producing single photons with a high degree of polarization (99 ± 4%) and high purity ( g (2) (0) = 0.030 ± 0.025). Our work paves the way for the deterministic integration of TMD-based quantum emitters for future photonic quantum technologies.