{"id":242665,"date":"2026-08-13T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/thermal-detection-of-single-photons-using-dirac-fermions"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:04:04","slug":"thermal-detection-of-single-photons-using-dirac-fermions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/thermal-detection-of-single-photons-using-dirac-fermions","title":{"rendered":"Thermal detection of single photons using Dirac fermions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermal-detection-of-single-photons-using-dirac-fermions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Single photon detectors are essential for various quantum and imaging applications. Here, the authors report graphene bolometers able to detect single near-infrared photons at temperatures up to 1.2 K with intrinsic quantum efficiency up to 87%, dark count &amp;nbsp;&amp;lt; 1 per second and effective noise equivalent power down to 2&amp;nbsp;\u00d7&amp;nbsp;10\u221222 W\/ $$\\sqrt{{{{\\rm{Hz}}}}}$$ Hz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single photon detectors are essential for various quantum and imaging applications. Here, the authors report graphene bolometers able to detect single near-infrared photons at temperatures up to 1.2 K with intrinsic quantum efficiency up to 87%, dark count &amp;nbsp;&amp;lt; 1 per second and effective noise equivalent power down to 2&amp;nbsp;\u00d7&amp;nbsp;10\u221222 W\/ $$\\sqrt{{{{\\rm{Hz}}}}}$$ Hz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}