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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…

Optically addressable spin defects hosted in two-dimensional van der Waals materials represent a new frontier for quantum technologies, promising to lead to a new class of ultrathin quantum sensors and simulators. Recently, hexagonal boron…

Optically addressable solid-state spins are an important platform for practical quantum technologies. Van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a promising host as it contains a wide variety of optical emitters, but thus far…

Sources of pure and indistinguishable single-photons are critical for near-future optical quantum technologies. Recently, color centers hosted by two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have emerged as a promising platform for high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Tobias Vogl , Ruvi Lecamwasam , Ben C. Buchler , Yuerui Lu , Ping Koy Lam

Point defect qubits in semiconductors have demonstrated their outstanding high spatial resolution sensing capabilities of broad multidisciplinary interest. Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors hosting such sensors have recently opened up new…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a significant material for quantum sensing, particularly due to its ability to host spin active defects, such as the negatively charged boron vacancy (V$_\mathrm{B}^-$ center). The optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 András Tárkányi , Viktor Ivády

Optically addressable spins in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) attract widespread attention for their potential advantage in on-chip quantum devices, such as quantum sensors and quantum network. A variety of spin defects have…

Single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride offer a gateway to the future of quantum technologies, yet their identification remains challenging and subject to ongoing debate. We demonstrate through ab initio calculations that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-04 Marek Maciaszek , Lukas Razinkovas

Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in two-dimensional materials are highly promising candidates for quantum technologies. SPEs in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have been widely investigated, but mostly in exfoliated or powder samples that…

We highlight recent advances in the controlled creation of single-photon emitters in van der Waals materials and in the understanding of their atomistic origin. We focus on quantum emitters created in monolayer transition-metal…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an excellent host for solid-state single phonon emitters. Experimental observed emission ranges from infrared to ultraviolet. The emission centers are generally attributed to either intrinsic or extrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-11 Song Li , Pei Li , Adam Gali

Atomically thin van der Waals crystals have recently enabled new scientific and technological breakthroughs across a variety of disciplines in materials science, nanophotonics and physics. However, non-classical photon emission from these…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-28 Toan Trong Tran , Kerem Bray , Michael J. Ford , Milos Toth , Igor Aharonovich

Understanding the collective behavior of the quasiparticles in solid-state systems underpins the field of non-volatile electronics, including the opportunity to control many-body effects for well-desired physical phenomena and their…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts robust room-temperature single-photon emitters, yet their coherence is typically limited by phonon induced dephasing and spectral broadening. Here, we show that thermally induced curvature in bulk like…

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

The potential of solid-state quantum emitters for applications critically depends on several key figures of merit. One of the most important is the quantum coherence of the emitted single photons, which can be compromised by fast dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Aymeric Delteil , Stéphanie Buil , Jean-Pierre Hermier

Growing interest in devices based on layered van der Waals (vdW) materials is motivating the development of new nanofabrication methods. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is one of the most promising materials for studies of quantum photonics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Johannes E. Fröch , Yongsop Hwang , Sejeong Kim , Igor Aharonovich , Milos Toth

We experimentally investigate a solid-state quantum emitter - a B center in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) - that has lifetime-limited coherence at short times, and experiences inhomogeneous broadening due to spectral diffusion at longer…

Crystal defects in the two-dimensional insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can host localised electronic states that are candidates for applications in quantum technology, yet the precise chemical and structural nature of the defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-18 A Sajid , Kristian S Thygesen , Jeffrey R Reimers , Michael J Ford

A patterned structure of monolithic hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on a glass substrate, which can enhance the emission of the embedded single photon emitters (SPEs), is useful for onchip single-photon sources of high-quality. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-04 Shun Cao , Yi Jin , Hongguang Dong , Tingbiao Guo , Jinlong He , Sailing He