Recent Research on Nanophotonics and Nanoscale Quantum Optics

Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterials, such as 0D quantum dots, 1D nanotubes and 2D van der Waals materials, have ushered in a new era of fundamental research and technological innovation, owing to the unique electronic, photonic, and optoelectronic properties that are unattainable in their bulk counterparts. For example, owing to the quantum confinement effect, nanomaterials typically show strong light–matter interaction and provide a powerful platform to realize novel and designable photonics and quantum optic phenomena. In addition, the ease with which nanomaterials can be transferred onto photonic circuits to create hybrid devices provides new opportunities for scalable quantum photonic devices. Nanophotonics and nanoscale quantum optics are also highly tunable through external degrees of freedom (such as ultrafast optical excitations, electric/magnetic field, strain, twist angle, doping, and Floquet engineering). This not only offers extraordinary opportunities to underpin new physics and initiate new research fields but also provides unprecedented possibilities to stimulate technological advances.

The goal of this Special Issue, entitled "Recent Research on Nanophotonics and Nanoscale Quantum Optics", is to showcase the latest advances in photonics and quantum optics in low-dimensional materials and their heterostructures. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: excitons, phonons, polaritons, magnons, collective excitations, photoresponses, single-photon emission/detection, and symmetry-breaking photonics/optoelectronics. We kindly invite all researchers working in these areas to contribute to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Luojun Du
Guest Editor

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• nanophotonics
• quantum optics
• low-dimensional materials
• van der Waals heterostructures
• photonics
• optoelectronics