About
Nika Akopian
Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Ørsteds Plads
Building 345A, room 079
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Denmark
Phone: +45-45-25-38-07
E-mail: nikaak@dtu.dk
Internet: nikaakopian.org
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Current research
Quantum Nanophotonics |
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Nanowire quantum dots |
Multi-qubit |
Atomic-solid state |
Quantum network |
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Key Awards & Recognitions 
2020 ERC Consolidator Grant (M€ 2.6) — European Research Council (EU)
2014 Young Investigator Program (k€ 536) — Villum Foundation (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2008 Innovational Research Incentives Scheme (k€ 208) — Veni Grant (NWO, The Netherlands)
2006 IUPAP Young Author Award, ICPS-28 International Conference (Vienna, Austria)
2006 Gutwirth Fellowship for excellence in PhD studies (Technion, Israel)
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Selected research papers
Location Qubits in a Multiple-Quantum-Dot System
D. Li, R. Radhakrishnan and N. Akopian
Nano Letters XX, XXX (2024)
Direct Band Gap AlGaAs Wurtzite Nanowires
D. Barettin, I.V. Shtrom, R.R. Reznik, S.V. Mikushev, G.E. Cirlin, M. Auf der Maur and N. Akopian
Nano Letters 23, 895 (2023)
Resonant Excitation of Nanowire Quantum Dots
L. Leandro, J. Hastrup, R. Reznik, G. Cirlin and N. Akopian
npj Quantum Information 6, 93 (2020)
All-optical Charging and Charge Transport in Quantum Dots
J. Hastrup, L. Leandro and N. Akopian
Scientific Reports 10, 14911 (2020), Video
Nanowire Quantum Dots Tuned to Atomic Resonances
L. Leandro, C.P. Gunnarsson, R. Reznik, K.D. Jöns, I. Shtrom, A. Khrebtov, T. Kasama, V. Zwiller, G. Cirlin and N. Akopian
Nano Letters 18, 7217 (2018)
An Artificial Atom Locked to Natural Atoms
N. Akopian, R. Trotta, E. Zallo, S. Kumar, P. Atkinson, A. Rastelli, O.G. Schmidt and V. Zwiller
arXiv:1302.2005 (2013)
Hybrid semiconductor-atomic interface: slowing down single photons from a quantum dot
N. Akopian, L. Wang, A. Rastelli, O.G. Schmidt and V. Zwiller
Nature Photonics 5, 230 (2011)
** With News and Views article and backpage Interview with N. Akopian.
Crystal Phase Quantum Dots
N. Akopian, G. Patriarche, L. Liu, J.-C. Harmand and V. Zwiller
Nano Letters 10, 1198 (2010)
** With editorial highlights in Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Materials.
Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots
N. Akopian, N.H. Lindner, E. Poem, Y. Berlatzky, J. Avron, D. Gershoni, B.D. Gerardot and P.M. Petroff
Physical Review Letters 96, 130501 (2006)
** Over 1000 citations.
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Brief CV
2014-present Professor — Technical University of Denmark (research department, video overview)
2021-present Principal Investigator — European Research Council, EU
2014-2018 Young Investigator — Villum Foundation, Denmark
2008-2011 Independent Researcher — Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni, The Netherlands
2007-2014 Postdoc — Delft & Eindhoven Universities of Technology, The Netherlands
2008 Ph.D. in Physics, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology
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