A new nanoscale device based on stacks of two-dimensional materials can not only generate a stream of single photons but can also control their chirality, or circular polarization, without the need for an applied magnetic field. Since manipulating a photon’s polarization state is a way to encode information in it, the advance could be important for quantum technologies, according to the researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US who developed it.
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