Quantum guidelines for solid-state spin defects

G Wolfowicz, FJ Heremans, CP Anderson… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Defects with associated electron and nuclear spins in solid-state materials have a long
history relevant to quantum information science that goes back to the first spin echo …

Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

S Vaidya, X Gao, S Dikshit, I Aharonovich… - Advances in Physics …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising
candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN's high stability and two …

Imperfections are not 0 K: free energy of point defects in crystals

I Mosquera-Lois, SR Kavanagh, J Klarbring… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Defects determine many important properties and applications of materials, ranging from
do** in semiconductors, to conductivity in mixed ionic–electronic conductors used in …

Material platforms for defect qubits and single-photon emitters

G Zhang, Y Cheng, JP Chou, A Gali - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
Quantum technology has grown out of quantum information theory and now provides a
valuable tool that researchers from numerous fields can add to their toolbox of research …

Ab initio theory of the negatively charged boron vacancy qubit in hexagonal boron nitride

V Ivády, G Barcza, G Thiering, S Li, H Hamdi… - npj Computational …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Highly correlated orbitals coupled with phonons in two-dimension are identified for
paramagnetic and optically active boron vacancy in hexagonal boron nitride by first …

Quantum simulations of materials on near-term quantum computers

H Ma, M Govoni, G Galli - npj Computational Materials, 2020‏ - nature.com
Quantum computers hold promise to enable efficient simulations of the properties of
molecules and materials; however, at present they only permit ab initio calculations of a few …

Single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride: a review of progress

A Sajid, MJ Ford, JR Reimers - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This report summarizes progress made in understanding properties such as zero-phonon-
line energies, emission and absorption polarizations, electron–phonon couplings, strain …

Quantum embedding theory for strongly correlated states in materials

H Ma, N Sheng, M Govoni, G Galli - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly correlated
electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable …

Recent progress in emergent two-dimensional silicene

G Shan, H Tan, R Ma, H Zhao, W Huang - Nanoscale, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Although graphene is by far the most famous example of two-dimensional (2D) materials,
which exhibits a wealth of exotic and intriguing properties, it suffers from a severe drawback …

Spin-active defects in hexagonal boron nitride

W Liu, NJ Guo, S Yu, Y Meng, ZP Li… - Materials for …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum technology grown out of quantum information theory, including quantum
communication, quantum computation and quantum sensing, not only provides powerful …