Associate Professor Matthew Sellars

Position	Senior Fellow
Department	Physics Education Centre Quantum Science & Technology
Research group	Solid state spectroscopy group
Office phone	(02) 612 54571
Email
Office	Physics New 1 23

Publications

Publications

Journal article

Zhang Y, Fan W, Yang J, Guan H, Zhang Q, Qin X, Duan C, de Boo G, Johnson B, McCallum J, Sellars M
Photoionisation detection of a single Er3+ ion with sub-100-ns time resolution
National Science Review 11, 4(2024)

Ahlefeldt R, Lyasota A, Smith J, Ren J, Sellars M
Effect of a hybrid transition moment on Stark-modulated photon echoes in Er3+: Y2SiO5
Physical Review B 108, 19(2023)

Berkman I, Lyasota A, de Boo G, Bartholomew J, Johnson B, McCallum J, Xu B, Xie S, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
Observing Er3+ Sites in Si with an in Situ Single-Photon Detector
Physical Review Applied 19, 1(2023)

Berrington M, Sellars M, Longdell J, Ronnow H, Vallabhapurapu H, Adambukulam C, Laucht A, Ahlefeldt R
Negative Refractive Index in Dielectric Crystals Containing Stoichiometric Rare-Earth Ions
Advanced Optical Materials 11, 24(2023) 2301167

Duda C, Ferguson K, Ahlefeldt R, Hedges M, Sellars M
Optimizing the efficiency of a quantum memory based on rephased amplified spontaneous emission
Physical Review A 107, 3(2023)

Hu G, Ahlefeldt R, de Boo G, Lyasota A, Johnson B, McCallum J, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
Single site optical spectroscopy of coupled Er3+ ion pairs in silicon
Quantum Science and Technology 7, 2(2022)

Hu G, de Boo G, Johnson B, McCallum J, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
Time-Resolved Photoionization Detection of a Single Er3+ Ion in Silicon
Nano Letters 22, 1(2022) 396-401

Smith K, Reid M, Sellars M, Ahlefeldt R
Complete crystal-field calculation of Zeeman hyperfine splittings in europium
Physical Review B 105, 12(2022) 13

Yang J, Fan W, Zhang Y, Duan C, de Boo G, Ahlefeldt R, Longdell J, Johnson B, McCallum J, Sellars M, Rogge S, Yin C, Du J
Zeeman and hyperfine interactions of a single Er 3+ 167 ion in Si
Physical Review B 105, 23(2022)

Bland-Hawthorn J, Sellars M, Bartholomew J
Quantum memories and the double-slit experiment: Implications for astronomical interferometry
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 38, 7(2021) A86-A98

Stuart J, Hedges M, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M
Initialization protocol for efficient quantum memories using resolved hyperfine structure
Physical Review Research 3, 3(2021) 1-6

Xu B, de Boo G, Johnson B, Rancic M, Bedoya A, Morrison B, McCallum J, Eggleton B, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
Ultrashallow Junction Electrodes in Low-Loss Silicon Microring Resonators
Physical Review Applied 15, 4(2021)

Ahlefeldt R, Pearce M, Hush M, Sellars M
Quantum processing with ensembles of rare-earth ions in a stoichiometric crystal
Physical Review A 101(2020) 1-11

de Boo G, Yin C, Rancic M, Johnson B, McCallum J, Sellars M, Rogge S
High-resolution spectroscopy of individual erbium ions in strong magnetic fields
Physical Review B 102, 15(2020)

Hanlon L, Gautam V, Wood J, Reddy P, Barson M, Niihori M, Silalahi A, Corry B, Wrachtrup J, Sellars M, Daria V, Maletinsky P, Stuart G, Doherty M
Diamond nanopillar arrays for quantum microscopy of neuronal signals
Neurophotonics 7, 3(2020) 1-12

Zhang Q, Hu G, de Boo G, Rancic M, Johnson B, McCallum J, Du J, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
Single Rare-Earth Ions as Atomic-Scale Probes in Ultrascaled Transistors
Nano Letters 19, 8(2019) 5025-5030

Zhong M, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M
Quantum information processing using frozen core Y 3+ spins in Eu 3+ :Y 2 SiO 5
New Journal of Physics 21, 3(2019)

Bartholomew J, Sellars M
Technique for frequency selective, sub-diffraction limited imaging of rare-earth ions in bulk crystals
Journal of Luminescence 194(2018) 284-291

Manson N, Hedges M, Barson M, Ahlefeldt R, Doherty M, Abe H, Ohshima T, Sellars M
NV--N+ pair centre in 1b diamond
New Journal of Physics 20(2018) 1-29

Rancic M, Hedges M, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M
Coherence time of over a second in a telecom-compatible quantum memory storage material
Nature Physics 14, 1(2018) 50-54

Ahlefeldt R, Hush M, Sellars M
Ultranarrow Optical Inhomogeneous Linewidth in a Stoichiometric Rare-Earth Crystal
Physical Review Letters 117, 25(2016) 1-6

Bartholomew J, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M
Engineering closed optical transitions in rare-earth ion crystals
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 93, 1(2016)

Doherty M, Meriles C, Alkauskas A, Sellars M, Manson N
Towards a room-temperature spin quantum bus in diamond via electron photoionization, transport, and capture
Physical Review X 6, 4(2016) 14

Ferguson K, Beavan S, Longdell J, Sellars M
Generation of Light with Multimode Time-Delayed Entanglement Using Storage in a Solid-State Spin-Wave Quantum Memory
Physical Review Letters 117, 2(2016)

Hush M, Bentley C, Ahlefeldt R, James M, Sellars M, Ugrinovskii V
Quantum state transfer through time reversal of an optical channel
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 94, 6(2016) 13

Hush M, Bentley C, Ahlefeldt R, James M, Sellars M, Ugrinovskii V
Quantum state transfer through time reversal of an optical channel
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 94, 6(2016) 1-16

Paulraj J, Wang R, Sellars M, Luther-Davies B
Epitaxial growth of Sc2O3 films on Gd2O3-buffered Si substrates by pulsed laser deposition
Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing 122, 4(2016)

Marzban S, Bartholomew J, Madden S, Vu K, Sellars M
Observation of Photon Echoes from Evanescently Coupled Rare-Earth Ions in a Planar Waveguide
Physical Review Letters 115, 1(2015) 013601-1 to 013601-5

Zhong M, Hedges M, Ahlefeldt R, Bartholomew J, Beavan S, Wittig S, Longdell J, Sellars M
Optically addressable nuclear spins in a solid with a six-hour coherence time
Nature 517, 7533(2015) 177-U121

Stevenson R, Hush M, Ribeiro de Carvalho A, Beavan S, Sellars M, Hope J
Single photon production by rephased amplified spontaneous emission
New Journal of Physics 16(2014) 1-16

Ahlefeldt R, Hutchinson D, Manson N, Sellars M
Method for assigning satellite lines to crystallographic sites in rare-earth crystals
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 88, 18(2013) 1-6

Ahlefeldt R, Manson N, Sellars M
Optical lifetime and linewidth studies of the F-7(0)-> D-5(0) transition in EuCl3 center dot 6H(2)O: A potential material for quantum memory applications
Journal of Luminescence 133(2013) 152-156

Ahlefeldt R, Manson N, Sellars M, McAuslan D, Longdell J
Precision measurement of electronic ion-ion interactions between neighboring Eu3+ optical centers
Physical Review Letters 111, 24(2013) 1-5

Ahlefeldt R, Zhong M, Bartholomew J, Sellars M
Minimizing Zeeman sensitivity on optical and hyperfine transitions in EuCl₃ . 6H₂O to extend coherence times
Journal of Luminescence 143(2013) 193-200

Beavan S, Goldschmidt E, Sellars M
Demonstration of a dynamic bandpass frequency filter in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 30, 5(2013) 1173-1177

Goldschmidt E, Beavan S, Polyakov S, Migdall A, Sellars M
Storage and retrieval of collective excitations on a long-lived spin transition in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal
Optics Express 21, 8(2013) 10087-10094

Yin C, Rancic M, de Boo G, Stavrias N, McCallum J, Sellars M, Rogge S
Optical addressing of an individual erbium ion in silicon
Science 497, 7447(2013) 91-94

Beavan S, Hedges M, Sellars M
Demonstration of photon-echo rephasing of spontaneous emission
Physical Review Letters 109, 9(2012)

McAuslan D, Bartholomew J, Sellars M, Longdell J
Reducing decoherence in optical and spin transitions in rare-earth-metal-ion-doped materials
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 85, 3(2012) 032339 1-9

Beavan S, Ledingham P, Longdell J, Sellars M
Photon echo without a free induction decay in a double-? system
Optics Letters 36, 7(2011) 1272-1274

McAuslan D, Ledingham P, Naylor W, Beavan S, Hedges M, Sellars M, Longdell J
Photon-echo quantum memories in inhomogeneously broadened two-level atoms
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 84, 2(2011)

Ahlefeldt R, Hutchison W, Sellars M
Eu³⁺ superhyperfine structure due to magnetic dipole-dipole interactions with Nd³⁺ in Nd³⁺ : EuCl₃ · 6H₂O
Journal of Luminescence 130, 9(2010) 1594 - 1597

Bradac C, Gaebel T, Naidoo N, Sellars M, Twamley J, Brown L, Barnard A, Plakhotnik T, Zvyagin A, Rabeau J
Observation and control of blinking nitrogen-vacancy centres in discrete nanodiamonds
Nature Nanotechnology 5, 5(2010) 345 - 349

He Y, Kono M, White R, Sellars M, Baldwin K, Orr B
Coherent heterodyne-assisted pulsed spectroscopy: sub-Doppler two-photon spectra of krypton, characterizing a tunable nonlinear-optical ultraviolet light source
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 99, 4(2010) 609 - 612

Hedges M, Longdell J, Li Y, Sellars M
Efficient quantum memory for light
Nature 465, 7301(2010) 1052-1056

Ledingham P, Naylor W, Longdell J, Beavan S, Sellars M
Nonclassical photon streams using rephased amplified spontaneous emission
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 81, 1(2010) Article No 012301

Tittel W, Afzelius M, Chaneliere T, Cone R, Kroll S, Moiseev S, Sellars M
Photon-echo quantum memory in solid state systems
Laser and Photonics Reviews 4, 2(2010) 244 - 267

Ahlefeldt R, Smith A, Sellars M
Ligand isotope structure of the optical ⁷F₀- ⁵D₀ transition in EuCl₃.6H₂O
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 80, 20(2009) 205106-1 - 205106-5

Beavan S, Fraval E, Sellars M, Longdell J
Demonstration of the reduction of decoherent errors in a solid-state qubit using dynamic decoupling techniques
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 80, 3(2009) 032308

McAuslan D, Longdell J, Sellars M
Strong-coupling cavity QED using rare-earth-metal-ion dopants in monolithic resonators: What you can do with a weak oscillator
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 80, 6(2009) 9

Rogers L, McMurtrie R, Sellars M, Manson N
Time-averaging within the excited state of the nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond
New Journal of Physics 11, 063007(2009) 15

Hetet G, Longdell J, Alexander A, Lam P, Sellars M
Electro-Optic Quantum Memory for Light Using Two-Level Atoms
Physical Review Letters (2008)

Hetet G, Longdell J, Sellars M, Lam P, Buchler B
Multimodal Properties and Dynamics of Gradient Echo Quantum Memory
Physical Review Letters 101(2008) 203601

Longdell J, Hetet G, Lam P, Sellars M
Analytic treatment of controlled reversible inhomogeneous broadening quantum memories for light using two-level atoms
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 78, 032337(2008) 6

Rogers L, Armstrong S, Sellars M, Manson N
Infrared emission of the NV centre in diamond: Zeeman and uniaxial stress studies
New Journal of Physics 10(2008) 103024

Alexander A, Longdell J, Sellars M
Measurement of the ground-state hyperfine coherence time of ¹⁵¹Eu³⁺:Y₂SiO₅
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 24, 9(2007) 2479 - 2482

Alexander A, Longdell J, Sellars M, Manson N
Coherent information storage with photon echoes produced by switching electric fields
Journal of Luminescence 127(2007) 94 - 97

Alexander A, Longdell J, Sellars M, Manson N
Photon Echoes Produced by Switching Electric Fields
Physical Review Letters 96, 4(2006) 043602-1-4

Harrison J, Sellars M, Manson N
Measurement of the optically induced spin polarisation of N-V centres in diamond
Diamond and Related Materials 15, 4-8(2006) 586-588

Longdell J, Alexander A, Sellars M
Characterization of the hyperfine interaction in europium-doped yttrium orthosilicate and europium chloride hexahydrate
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 74, 19(2006) 195101-1-7

Manson N, Harrison J, Sellars M
Nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond: Model of the electronic structure and associated dynamics
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 74, 10(2006) 104303-1-11

Fraval E, Sellars M, Longdell J
Dynamic decoherence control of a solid-state nuclear-quadrpole qubit
Physical Review Letters 95, 030506(2005) 1-4

Longdell J, Fraval E, Sellars M, Manson N
Stopped light with storage times greater than one second using electromagnetically induced transparency in a solid
Physical Review Letters 95, 063601(2005) 1-4

Fraval E, Sellars M
Pr-y interaction in Pr3+:Y2SiO5
Journal of Luminescence 107(2004) 347-350

Fraval E, Sellars M, Longdell J
Method of Extending Hyperfine coherence Times in Pr3+:Y2SiO5
Physical Review Letters 92, 7(2004) 0776014

Harrison J, Sellars M, Manson N
Optical spin polarisation of the N-V centre in diamond
Journal of Luminescence 107(2004) 245-248

Longdell J, Sellars M
Experimental demonstration of quantum-state tomography and qubit-qubit interactions for rare-earth-metal-ion-based solid-state qubits
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 69(2004) 0323075

Longdell J, Sellars M, Manson N
Demonstration of Conditional Quantum Phase Shift Between Ions in a Solid
Physical Review Letters 93, 13(2004) 1305031-4

Pryde G, Sellars M, Manson N
Phase-dependent decoherence of optical transitons in Pr3+:LaF3 in the presence of a driving field
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 69(2004) 0751071-4

Sellars M, Fraval E, Longdell J
Investigation of static electric dipole-dipole coupling induced optical inhomogeneous broadening in Eu3+:Y2SiO5
Journal of Luminescence 107(2004) 150-154

Longdell J, Sellars M, Manson N
Hyperfine interaction in ground and excited states of praseodymium-doped yttrium orthosilicate
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials 66, 3(2002) 035101-1 - 6

Smith A, Martin J, Sellars M, Manson N, Silversmith A, Henderson B
Site selective excitation, upconversion and laser operation in Er³⁺: LiKYF₅
Optics Communications 188(2001) 219-232

Smith A, Martin J, Sellars M, Manson N
Site selective excitation, upconversion and laser operation in Er3+:LiKYF5
Optics Communications 188, 1-4(2001) 219-232

Martin J, Manson N, Doetschman D, Sellars M, Neuhaus R, Wilson E
Spectral hole burning and Raman heterodyne signals associated with an avoided crossing in the NV centre in diamond
Journal of Luminescence 86(2000) 355 - 362

Pryde G, Sellars M, Manson N
Optical non-Bloch behaviour observed using an optical Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill pulse sequence
Journal of Luminescence 86(2000) 279 - 283

Pryde G, Sellars M, Manson N
Solid State Coherent Transient Measurements Using Hard Optical Pulses
Physical Review Letters 84(2000) 1152 - 1155

Purchase R, Sellars M, Krausz E, Manson N
Magneto-optic measurements of spectral holes in metallo-porphyrin derivatives in polymer matrices
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2(2000) 3993-3999

Purchase R, Sellars M, Krausz E, Manson N
Electric-field-induced broadening of spectral holes in zinc phthalocyanine
Chemical Physics Letters 327(2000) 189-196

Sellars M, Pryde G, Manson N, Krausz E
50kHz absorption line in Y2SiO5:Eu3+
Journal of Luminescence 87-89(2000) 833-835

Dyke T, Sellars M, Pryde G, Manson N, Elman U, Kroll S
Experimental Demonstrations of Data Erasure for Time-Domain Optical Memories
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 16, 5(1999) 805-811

Sellars M, Dyke T, Pryde G, Manson N
Time Domain Optical Memories using Rare Earth Ions
Materials Science Forum 315-317(1999) 59-68

Martin J, Sellars M, Manson N, Pryde G
Resolved isotopic energy shift and hole burning in EuCl36H2O
Journal of Luminescence 78, 1(1998) 19-24

Sellars M
Breaking the Stokes-anti-Stokes symmetry in Raman heterodyne detection of magnetic-resonance transitions
Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 58, 6(1998) 4961-4966

Sellars M, Manson N
Direct observation of radiation locking using phase-sensitive detection
Journal of Luminescence 76-77(1998) 137-140

(86 publications)

Conference paper

Berkman I, Lyasota A, de Boo G, Bartholomew J, Johnson B, McCallum J, Xu B, Xie S, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M, Yin C, Rogge S
In-Situ Single-Photon Detection of Er Sites in Si
2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '22) ?, ?(2022) FM5D.5

Sellars M, Ahlefeldt R, Hush M
Stoichiometric rare-earth crystals for applications in quantum information
QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2017 ?, ?(2017)

Wittig S, Wittig S, Berquand A, Zhong M, Sellars M
Concept for single-satellite global quantum key distribution using a solid state quantum memory
68th International Astronautical Congress: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security, IAC 2017 ?, ?(2017) 5040-5050

Bartholomew J, Ahlefeldt R, Sellars M
Closing optical transitions for single rare-earth ion spin readout
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016 ?, ?(2016)

D'Orgeville C, Bennet F, Blundell M, Brister R, Chan A, Dawson M, Gao Y, Paulin N, Price I, Rigaut F, Ritchie I, Sellars M, Smith C, Uhlendorf K, Wang Y
A sodium laser guide star facility for the ANU/EOS space debris tracking adaptive optics demonstrator
Adaptive Optics Systems IV ?, ?(2014)

Marzban S, Bartholomew J, Sellars M, Vu K
Progress towards the development of rare-earth doped waveguides for quantum communications applications
OSA CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO_QELS 2014 ?, ?(2014)

Goldschmidt E, Peters J, Polyakov S, Migdall A, Beavan S, Sellars M
Towards a long-lived quantum memory for single photons in rare earth doped crystals
Frontiers in Optics 2013/Laser Science XXIX ?, ?(2013)

Sellars M, Beavan S, Ferguson K
Cavity enhanced rephased amplified spontaneous emission
Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication VI 8635(2013) 1-5

Yin C, Rancic M, Stavrias N, de Boo G, McCallum J, Sellars M, Rogge S
Photo-ionisation spectra of single erbium centres by charge sensing with a nano transistor
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2012) ?, ?(2012) 197

Ahlefeldt R, Hutchison W, Sellars M
Characterisation of EuCl 3.6H 2O for multi-qubit quantum processing
2011 International Quantum Electronics Conference, IQEC 2011 and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO Pacific Rim 2011 ?, ?(2011) 1791-1793

Buchler B, Hosseini M, Hetet G, Sparkes B, Longdell J, Sellars M, Lam P
High efficiency gradient echo memory with 3-level atoms
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement And Computing 2010 1363(2011) 383-388

Goldschmidt E, Beavan S, Polyakov S, Migdall A, Sellars M
Spin-wave generation and storage in a solid state system
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2011) ?, ?(2011)

Longdell J, Hetet G, Alexander A, Lam P, Sellars M
Gradient echo quantum memory for light using two-level atoms
Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging Conference 2007 6710(2008) 67100X/1-9

Alexander A, Longdell J, Sellars M
Development of a Quantum Memory
Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2004) ?, ?(2004) AOS-PO1-1

Fraval E, Sellars M
Solid State Spin Qubit Decoherence Times in Excess of 20s achieved using Dynamic Decoherence Control
Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2004) ?, ?(2004) ThurAfter2.45-1

Harrison J, Sellars M, Manson N
Nitrogen-Vacancy Centre in Diamond for Information Processing
Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2004) ?, ?(2004) AOS-PO14-1

Longdell J, Sellars M
Two Qubit Operations using Optically Active Centres in Solids
Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2004) ?, ?(2004) AOS-PO20-1

Sellars M, Manson N
COHERENT TIME DOMAIN OPTICAL PROCESSING
Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT 2000) ?, ?(2000) 108 - 109

(18 publications)

Journal short contribution (non refereed)

Rogge S, Sellars M
Quantum computing: Atomic clocks in the solid state
Nature Nanotechnology 8, 8(2013) 544-545

Riesen H, Sellars M, Manson N
Physics Procedia: Preface
Physics Procedia 3, 4(2010) 1522-1523

(2 publications)