Diamond photonics is an ever-growing field of research driven by the prospects of
harnessing diamond and its colour centres as suitable hardware for solid-state quantum …

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a solid-state defect qubit with favorable
coherence time up to room temperature, which could be harnessed in several quantum …

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) colour centre in diamond is an important physical system for
emergent quantum technologies, including quantum metrology, information processing and …

We demonstrate that silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond can be used to efficiently
generate coherent optical photons with excellent spectral properties. We show that these …

Atomic-sized fluorescent defects in diamond are widely recognized as a promising solid
state platform for quantum cryptography and quantum information processing. For these …

The burgeoning field of nanophotonics has grown to be a major research area, primarily
because of the ability to control and manipulate single quantum systems (emitters) and …

The negatively charged silicon vacancy (SiV) color center in diamond has recently proven its
suitability for bright and stable single photon emission. However, its electronic structure so …

The exploitation of emerging quantum technologies requires efficient fabrication of key
building blocks. Sources of single photons are extremely important across many …

Engineering coherent systems is a central goal of quantum science. Color centers in
diamond are a promising approach, with the potential to combine the coherence of atoms …

Nitrogen is ubiquitous in both natural and laboratory-grown diamond, but the number and
nature of the nitrogen-containing defects can have a profound effect on the diamond …