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Hello there, we are the Nanophotonics group! During this week, we will keep you updated about the journey of the quantum source. So, without further ado, to the next stop!

Sapienza Università di Roma is one of the oldest and most important Universities in Italy. With more than 100000 enrolled, it is the institution with the highest number of students in Europe! People come from all over the country to study here.

The Physics Department in Sapienza Università di Roma is one of the most prominent in Italy, both for the cutting-edge research we currently develop here and its bright history. Let’s take a look at the department as it is today!

If you are following QuanTour from its start, you have already met the quantum dot: a nanostructure made of tens of thousands of atoms. We are interested in how they emit entangled photons.

One technical approach we develop and use is pulling and stretching our samples. Yes, one can do that even with apparently brittle and rigid materials such as the ones we use!

As entangled photons become a more exploitable resource, we can use them for practical purposes, such as sharing secret keys between two parties.

How's a day in the life of Nanophotonics Rome? First of all, we have to get to the Lab. In Rome, that is not straightforward: whether you come by car, bus or train, you know when you leave, but you never know when you'll arrive. #QuanTour #SUPERquantum #QTorch

Look, Michele just arrived on his bike! Michele is a Researcher and he has expertise on a wide variety of topica: he can deal with optics and sample growth as well as with hydraulics and electronics (but don't let him get too close to your PC, he likes to open them).

Francesco is already in his office writing, thinking...he Is a Researcher, too, and he always hands out great feedback to any question: he usually points out how the things you are doing are wrong in this and that regard, but I guess someone has to do that, right?

Of course, PostDocs need to start their morning with coffee, too; and alongside the coffee machine, we find Alessandro. He is in a complicated relationship with quantum dots, but he is fond of math and writing. Go to him if you need a break: he's always up for that!

Lab Time! Let's visit our heroic PhDs. Giuseppe is all about 2D materials, a big fan of light polarization and always ready to lend a hand. But sometimes it is hard to keep up and he has to ask for help. Cheer up, Peppe, you're the best!

We cross the door and, in the other lab, we find Mattia, absorbed in his work. There is no dot he can not excite and he is afraid of nothing. No kidding, he is scary.

Time for another well-deserved break. Let's go for a stroll in the beautiful Physics Department "zen garden" and say hi to the turtles!

Walking back upstairs, we meet Carola in her office, busy as always: she is a natural problem solver and there is no bureaucratic conundrum that she can't handle!

This week our master and PhD students enjoyed a great experience at the Quantum NEST School hosted by the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice universite-paris-saclay.fr/quantum-nest-2… They had a great time meeting fantastic speakers, learning a lot, but also, you know, when in Sicily...

Our research goes around Europe with posters presentation at the Summerschool: Nanotechnology meets Quantum Information (NanoQI) in Donostia-San Sebastian. Our young members Giuseppe Ronco and Mattia Beccaceci are there with results from their work. #DIPC #quantumoptics #nanotechnology

Our latest work is online, free to read on #eLight! Follow the link to learn more about the new bright #entangled-#light #quantumdot source powering all of our latest experiments at the Nanophotonics Lab! Sapienza Università di Roma JKU - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg CNR - IFN tinyurl.com/2m5rfcze

The world of material sciencs just gained a new PhD laureate! Congratulations to Giuseppe Ronco for defending cum laude his PhD thesis on strained 2D and 0D excitons in our Lab! Way to go Giuseppe and we hope a lot more exciting science will disclose in front of you! Giuseppe Ronco

Our recent work on bright and entangled quantum dots (M.B. Rota, T. M. Krieger, et al. eLight 4, 13) appeared in a "News and Views" on LightSciAppl by Prof. Fei Ding of Leibniz Uni Hannover. We are very excited by the interest raised by our research! nature.com/articles/s4137…

Exciting news! I’m starting a new journey as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Fisica - Politecnico di Milano! Grateful for my time as a researcher at Nanophotonics Rome and Sapienza Università di Roma and the amazing colleagues who supported me. Looking forward to new challenges and collaborations!