A tunable chiral light-matter interface with on-chip spin control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.06630v1
• Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:25:58 GMT
• Title: A tunable chiral light-matter interface with on-chip spin control
• Abstract summary: chiral light-matter interactions are a valuable resource for realizing quantum networks and non-reciprocal quantum optics.<n>Here, we demonstrate chiral coupling between light and a negatively charged exciton state, embedded in a standard photonic-crystal waveguide.<n>We demonstrate that this local chirality enables coherent control of an electron spin via an optical Raman process mediated by waveguide driving.
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• Abstract: The ability to engineer chiral light-matter interactions is a valuable resource for realizing quantum networks and non-reciprocal quantum optics. Here, we demonstrate chiral coupling between light and a negatively charged exciton state, i.e., a four-level system, embedded in a standard photonic-crystal waveguide. By controlling the orientation and strength of an external magnetic field, we tune the polarization of the individual optical transition dipoles relative to the fixed elliptically polarized waveguide mode. In a two-sided waveguide, an optimized oblique magnetic field allows a selected transition to decay exclusively into a single propagation direction, enabling near-unity directional emission ($0.99^{+0.01}_{-0.02}$), despite the waveguide exhibiting imperfect polarization for chiral coupling. We further observe two tunable chiral branching ratios, the directional analogue of optical cyclicity, for two $Λ$-systems, with one reaching $134_{-77}^{+\infty}$. The magnetic-field-dependent spectroscopy also allows reconstruction of the local guided-mode polarization at the emitter via the Stokes parameters relative to the emitter's dipole moments. Finally, we demonstrate that this local chirality enables coherent control of an electron spin via an optical Raman process mediated by waveguide driving. Building on the simultaneous realization of a large branching ratio, directionality and spin control achieved at the same oblique magnetic-field angle, we propose a protocol with high tolerance to photon loss for generating high-fidelity remote spin-spin entanglement. Our magnetic control opens a reconfigurable and generic route for enhancing on-chip chiral spin-photon coupling in standard nanophotonic interfaces without the need to carefully engineer the polarization of the waveguide.

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