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Single-photon emitters serve as building blocks for many emerging concepts in quantum photonics. The recent identification of bright, tunable, and stable emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has opened the door to quantum platforms…

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising solid-state platform for quantum technology applications. However, a persistent challenge in the field is the unclear origin of many observed emission lines,…

The defect-mediated hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) supercell display the visible optical spectra and electronic characteristics. The defects in the hBN supercell include the atomic vacancy, antisite, antisite vacancy, and substitution of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-13 Sheng Yu , Bagher Tabibi , Qiliang Li , Felix Jaetae Seo

Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently become the focus of intense research as a material to host quantum emitters. Although it is well known that such emission is associated with point defects, so far no conclusive…

Color centers in h-BN are among the brightest emission centers known yet the origins of these emission centers are not well understood. Here, using first-principles calculations in combination with the generating function method, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-17 Christopher Linderälv , Witlef Wieczorek , Paul Erhart

Color centers hosted in hexagonal boron nitride have emerged as a highly promising platform for single-photon emission and spin-photon technologies relevant to quantum communication and quantum networking. As a wide-bandgap van der Waals…

Defect centers in hexagonal boron nitride represent room-temperature single-photon sources in a layered van der Waals material. These light emitters appear with a wide range of transition energies ranging over the entire visible spectrum,…

We theoretically study physical properties of the most promising color center candidates for the recently observed single-photon emissions in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayers. Through our group theory analysis combined with density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-21 Mehdi Abdi , Jyh-Pin Chou , Adam Gali , Martin B. Plenio

Ultraviolet (UV) quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have generated considerable interest due to their outstanding optical response. Recent experiments have identified a carbon impurity as a possible source of UV single photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Song Li , Anton Pershin , Gergő Thiering , Péter Udvarhelyi , Adam Gali

Quantum emitters in layered hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently attracted a great attention as promising single photon sources. In this work, we demonstrate resonant excitation of a single defect center in hBN, one of the most…

Defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibit single-photon emission (SPE) and are thus attracting broad interest as platforms for quantum information and spintronic applications. However, the atomic structure and the specific impact of…

The strong excitonic emission at 5.75 eV of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) makes this material one of the most promising candidate for light emitting devices in the far ultraviolet (UV). However, single excitons occur only in perfect…

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…

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

Solid-state quantum emitters constitute an essential building blocks of integrated quantum photonic circuits. Among potential emitter platforms, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts single-photon emitters in an atomically thin lattice…

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have gained significant attention due to a wide range of defects that offer high quantum efficiency and single-photon purity at room temperature. Most theoretical studies on hBN defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Chanaprom Cholsuk , Sujin Suwanna , Tobias Vogl

Single photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered significant attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despite the vast range of experimental results and theoretical…

Development of stable room-temperature bright single-photon emitters using atomic defects in hexagonal-boron nitride flakes (h-BN) provides significant promises for quantum technologies. However, an outstanding challenge in h-BN is creating…

We investigate the polarization selection rules of sharp zero-phonon lines (ZPLs) from isolated defects in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and compare our findings with the predictions of a configuration coordinate model involving two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Nicholas R. Jungwirth , Gregory D. Fuchs

Radiative defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are active in a broad spectral range from deep ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths. Representatives of these defects act as bright single photon sources, spin-1 systems, and…