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A Single-Photon Detector (SPD) can detect extremely low intensity of electromagnetic wave - down to a single photon. Driven by the rapid developments in quantum information science and an increasing demand for ultra-low-light sensing across…

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) constitute a foundational resource for quantum technologies, including secure communication, photonic quantum computing, and emerging quantum network architectures. A wide range of quantum materials, from…

Single photon emitters (SPEs) in low-dimensional layered materials have recently gained a large interest owing to the auspicious perspectives of integration and extreme miniaturization offered by this class of materials. However, accurate…

The development of robust and efficient single photon emitters (SPEs) at telecom wavelengths is critical for advancements in quantum information science. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have recently emerged as promising sources for SPEs,…

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) enable miniaturization of optical quantum circuits because several optic and electronic functionalities can be added on the same chip. Single photon emitters (SPEs) are central building blocks for such…

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) single photon emitters (SPEs) offer numerous advantages to quantum information applications, such as high single photon purity and deterministic positioning. Strain in the host monolayer, induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Panaiot G. Zotev , Sam A. Randerson , Xuerong Hu , Yue Wang , Alexander I. Tartakovskii

Single photons emitters (SPEs) are key components in quantum information applications and are commonly generated in 2D materials by inhomogeneous strain engineering. Here, we report an alternative approach that involves a 2D…

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are building blocks of quantum technologies. Defect engineering of 2D materials is ideal to fabricate SPEs, wherein spatially deterministic and quality-preserving fabrication methods are critical for…

Quantum technologies require robust and photostable single photon emitters (SPEs) that can be reliably engineered. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently emerged as a promising candidate host to bright and optically stable SPEs…

Solid-state single-photon emitters (SPE) are a basis for emerging technologies such as quantum communication and quantum sensing. SPE based on fluorescent point defects are ubiquitous in semiconductors and insulators, and new systems with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Leah R. Narun , Rebecca E. K. Fishman , Henry J. Shulevitz , Raj N. Patel , Lee C. Bassett

Layered van der Waals materials are emerging as compelling two-dimensional (2D) platforms for studies of nanophotonics, polaritonics, valleytronics and spintronics, and have the potential to transform applications in sensing, imaging and…

Recent research focused on single photon emitters (SPEs) hosted by layered semiconductors, particularly hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), has revealed a promising alternative to quantum dots (QDs) for generating single, indistinguishable…

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are integral parts of several quantum technology implementations. Over the past decade or so, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as one of the promising candidates for SPE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Mayank Chhaperwal , Amartyaraj Kumar , Kausik Majumdar

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are a key component for their use as pure photon source in quantum technologies. In this study, we investigate the generation of SPEs from drop-casted hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanoflakes, examining the…

Single photon emitters in two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for future generation of quantum photonic technologies. In this work, we experimentally determine the quantum efficiency (QE) of single photon emitters (SPE) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Niko Nikolay , Noah Mendelson , Ersan Özelci , Bernd Sontheimer , Florian Böhm , Günter Kewes , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich , Oliver Benson

Single-photon sources that are bright, pure, and interference-ready are essential for quantum communication and photonic quantum information processing, but many solid-state platforms still rely on bulky optical excitation, careful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Sahil D. Patel , Sean Doan , Luka Jevremovic , Kamyar Parto , Galan Moody

In this review, we describe the current landscape of emergent quantum materials for quantum photonic applications. We focus on three specific solid-state platforms: single emitters in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Martin Esmann , Stephen C. Wein , Carlos Antón-Solanas

Single-photon emitters (SPE) in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are promising for applications ranging from single-photon sources to quantum sensors. Previous studies exclusively focused on the generation and characterization of SPEs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Le Liu , Igor Khanonkin , Johannes Eberle , Bernhard Rizek , Stefan Fält , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ataç Imamoğlu , Martin Kroner

Compact and reliable sources of non-classical light could find many applications in emerging technologies such as quantum cryptography, quantum imaging and also in fundamental tests of quantum physics. Single self-assembled quantum dots…

Solid state quantum emitters are a mainstay of quantum nanophotonics as integrated single photon sources (SPS) and optical nanoprobes. Integrating such emitters with active nanophotonic elements is desirable in order to attain efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 K. Schädler , C. Ciancico , S. Pazzagli , P. Lombardi , A. Bachtold , C. Toninelli , A. Reserbat-Plantey , F. Koppens
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