Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

Metasurfaces have been continuously garnering attention in both scientific and industrial
fields, owing to their unprecedented wavefront manipulation capabilities using arranged …

Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

Quantum emitters have become a vital tool for both fundamental science and emerging
technologies. In recent years, the focus in the field has shifted to exploration and …

Quantum information science and engineering (QISE)—which entails the use of quantum
mechanical states for information processing, communications, and sensing—and the area …

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials have emerged as a rapidly develo** field
of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. These materials establish a new central research …

To date, quantum communication widely relies on attenuated lasers for secret key
generation. In future quantum networks, fundamental limitations resulting from their …

Optically active defects in 2D materials, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and
transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an attractive class of single-photon emitters …

Two-dimensional chalcogenide semiconductors have recently emerged as a host material
for quantum emitters of single photons. While several reports on defect-and strain-induced …

Single photon emission of quantum emitters (QEs) carrying internal degrees of freedom
such as spin and angular momentum plays an important role in quantum optics. Recently …