Layered materials as a platform for quantum technologies

ARP Montblanch, M Barbone, I Aharonovich… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Initialization and read-out of intrinsic spin defects in a van der Waals crystal at room temperature

A Gottscholl, M Kianinia, V Soltamov, S Orlinskii… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Optically addressable spins in wide-bandgap semiconductors are a promising platform for
exploring quantum phenomena. While colour centres in three-dimensional crystals such as …

Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride

N Mendelson, D Chugh, JR Reimers, TS Cheng… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered increasing
attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despite …

Tuning colour centres at a twisted hexagonal boron nitride interface

C Su, F Zhang, S Kahn, B Shevitski, J Jiang, C Dai… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
The colour centre platform holds promise for quantum technologies, and hexagonal boron
nitride has attracted attention due to the high brightness and stability, optically addressable …

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 …

Position-controlled quantum emitters with reproducible emission wavelength in hexagonal boron nitride

C Fournier, A Plaud, S Roux, A Pierret… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single photon emitters (SPEs) in low-dimensional layered materials have recently gained a
large interest owing to the auspicious perspectives of integration and extreme …

Near-deterministic activation of room-temperature quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

NV Proscia, Z Shotan, H Jayakumar, P Reddy… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Applications of quantum science to computing, cryptography, and imaging are on their way
to becoming key next-generation technologies. Owing to the high-speed transmission and …

Femtosecond laser writing of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

X Gao, S Pandey, M Kianinia, J Ahn, P Ju… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Optically active spin defects in wide-bandgap materials have many potential applications in
quantum information and quantum sensing. Spin defects in two-dimensional layered van der …

Generation of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

M Kianinia, S White, JE Fröch, C Bradac… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride offers intriguing opportunities for advanced
studies of light–matter interaction at the nanoscale, specifically for realizations in quantum …