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Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have become an intensively researched system due to their potential applications in quantum technologies. There has been a large variety of defects being fabricated, yet, for many of them, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Chanaprom Cholsuk , Ashkan Zand , Asli Cakan , Tobias Vogl

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are the subject of intense investigation for applications in optics, electronics, catalysis, and energy storage. Their optical and electronic properties can be significantly…

Hexagonal boron nitride is rapidly gaining interest as a platform for photonic quantum technologies, due to its two-dimensional nature and its ability to host defects deep within its large band gap that may act as room-temperature…

Defects in wide bandgap semiconductors have recently emerged as promising candidates for solid-state quantum optical technologies. Electrical excitation of emitters may pave the way to scalable on-chip devices, and therefore is highly…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging two dimensional material for quantum photonics owing to its large bandgap and hyperbolic properties. Here we report a broad range of multicolor room temperature single photon emissions across the…

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a critical material for 2D electronic devices for graphene and has attracted a considerable amount of attention owing to its structural similarity and semiconducting property. However, modifying its…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Jerome A. Cuenca , Soumen Mandal , Malcolm Snowball , Adrian Porch , Oliver A. Williams

Quantum sensing with qubits has advanced fundamental physics searches, but higher dimensional systems offer untapped potential. We present a universal qutrit framework that yields a sequence-independent fourfold increase in quantum Fisher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Xiaolin Ma , Volodymyr Takhistov , Norikazu Mizuochi , Ernst David Herbschleb

Substitutional transition metal (TM) point defects have recently been controllably introduced in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides. We identify quantum defect candidates through a first-principles materials discovery…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-13 Jingda Zhang , Su Ying Quek

Solid state spins have demonstrated significant potential in quantum sensing with applications including fundamental science, medical diagnostics and navigation. The quantum sensing schemes showing best performance under ambient conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Beat Bürgler , Tobias F. Sjolander , Ovidiu Brinza , Alexandre Tallaire , Jocelyn Achard , Patrick Maletinsky

The negatively charged boron vacancy center in 2D hexagonal boron nitride has emerged as a promising quantum sensor. However, its sensitivity is constrained due to ubiquitous nuclear spins in the environment. The nuclear spins, hyperfine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Basanta Mistri , Saksham Mahajan , Felix Donaldson , Rama K. Kamineni , Siddharth Dhomkar

Crystal defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are emerging as versatile nanoscale optical probes with a wide application profile, spanning the fields of nanophotonics, biosensing, bioimaging and quantum information processing. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiliang Yang , Dong Hoon Shin , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Peter G. Steeneken , Sabina Caneva

Developing superior quantum sensing strategies ranging from ultra-high precision measurement to complex structural analysis is at the heart of quantum technologies. While strategies using quantum resources, such as entanglement among…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are considered for numerous applications in microelectronics, although several challenges remain when integrating them into functional devices. Weak adhesion is one of them, caused by their chemical inertness.…

The search for an ideal single-photon source has generated significant interest in discovering novel emitters in materials as well as developing new manipulation techniques to gain better control over the emitters' properties. Quantum…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-06 Shaimaa I. Azzam , Kamyar Parto , Galan Moody

An important feature of strong correlated electron systems is the tunability between interesting ground states such as unconventional superconductivity and exotic magnetism. Pressure is a clean, continuous and systematic tuning parameter.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 King Yau Yip , Kin On Ho , King Yiu Yu , Yang Chen , Wei Zhang , S. Kasahara , Y. Mizukami , T. Shibauchi , Y. Matsuda , Swee K. Goh , Sen Yang

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…

Assembling two-dimensional van der Waals layered materials into heterostructures is an exciting development that sparked the discovery of rich correlated electronic phenomena and offers possibilities for designer device applications.…

Precision measurement plays a crucial role in all fields of science. The use of entangled sensors in quantum metrology improves the precision limit from the standard quantum limit (SQL) to the Heisenberg limit (HL). To date, most…

There has been growing interest in studying hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for quantum technologies. Here, we investigate nitrogen isotope effects on boron vacancy (V$_\text{B}$) defects, one of the candidates for quantum sensors, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Kento Sasaki , Takashi Taniguchi , Kensuke Kobayashi

Quantum sensors that use solid state spin defects have emerged as effective probes of weak alternating magnetic signals. By recording the phase of a signal relative to an external clock, these devices can resolve signal frequencies to a…