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 …

Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

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 …

Room-temperature optically detected magnetic resonance of single defects in hexagonal boron nitride

HL Stern, Q Gu, J Jarman, S Eizagirre Barker… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optically addressable solid-state spins are important platforms for quantum technologies,
such as repeaters and sensors. Spins in two-dimensional materials offer an advantage, 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 …

Tunable and high-purity room temperature single-photon emission from atomic defects in hexagonal boron nitride

G Grosso, H Moon, B Lienhard, S Ali, DK Efetov… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Two-dimensional van der Waals materials have emerged as promising platforms for solid-
state quantum information processing devices with unusual potential for heterogeneous …

Quantum information and algorithms for correlated quantum matter

K Head-Marsden, J Flick, CJ Ciccarino… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Discoveries in quantum materials, which are characterized by the strongly quantum-
mechanical nature of electrons and atoms, have revealed exotic properties that arise from …

Machine learning-enabled design of point defects in 2D materials for quantum and neuromorphic information processing

NC Frey, D Akinwande, D Jariwala, VB Shenoy - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Engineered point defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials offer an attractive platform for
solid-state devices that exploit tailored optoelectronic, quantum emission, and resistive …

Atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride and its heterostructures

J Zhang, B Tan, X Zhang, F Gao, Y Hu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atomically thin hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) is an emerging star of 2D materials. It is
taken as an optimal substrate for other 2D‐material‐based devices owing to its atomical …

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride monolayers: a group theory and ab initio analysis

M Abdi, JP Chou, A Gali, MB Plenio - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
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) …