Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

I Aharonovich, JP Tetienne, M Toth - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a fascinating platform to explore quantum
emitters and their applications. Beyond being a wide-bandgap material, it is also a van der …

Carbon-Related Quantum Emitter in Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Homogeneous Energy and 3-Fold Polarization

D Zhong, S Gao, M Saccone, JR Greer, M Bernardi… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Most hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) single-photon emitters (SPEs) studied to date suffer
from variable emission energy and unpredictable polarization, two crucial obstacles to their …

Stark effect of blue quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

I Zhigulin, J Horder, V Ivády, SJU White, A Gale, C Li… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Inhomogeneous broadening is a major limitation for the application of quantum emitters in
hexagonal boron nitride to integrated quantum photonics. Here we demonstrate that so …

Investigating the fast spectral diffusion of a quantum emitter in hBN using resonant excitation and photon correlations

C Fournier, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, J Barjon, S Buil… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The ability to identify and characterize homogeneous and inhomogeneous dephasing
processes is crucial in solid-state quantum optics. In particular, spectral diffusion leading to …

Electrical tuning of quantum light emitters in hBN for free space and telecom optical bands

AB Dhu-al Shaik, P Palla, D Jenkins - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum light emitters (also known as single photon emitters) are known to be the heart of
quantum information technologies. Irrespective of possessing ideal single photon emitter …

Time-dependent Mandel Q parameter analysis for a hexagonal boron nitride single photon source

C Jones, J Xavier, S Vartabi Kashanian, M Nguyen… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The time-dependent Mandel Q parameter, Q (T), provides a measure of photon number
variance for a light source as a function of integration time. Here, we use Q (T) to …

[HTML][HTML] Hexagonal boron nitride based photonic quantum technologies

MK Prasad, MPC Taverne, CC Huang, JD Mar, YLD Ho - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
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 …

Excited-state geometry relaxation of point defects in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

A Kirchhoff, T Deilmann, M Rohlfing - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Point defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are often discussed as single-photon emitters
for quantum technologies. Understanding the dependence of electronic and optical …

Probing the limits for coherent optical control of a mechanically decoupled defect center in hexagonal boron nitride

MK Koch, V Bharadwaj, A Kubanek - Communications Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The coherent control of a two-level system is among the most essential challenges in
modern quantum optics. Understanding its fundamental limitations is crucial, also for the …

Controlled coherent-coupling and dynamics of exciton complexes in a MoSe2 monolayer

A Rodek, T Hahn, J Howarth, T Taniguchi… - 2D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantifying and controlling the coherent dynamics and couplings of optically active
excitations in solids is of paramount importance in fundamental research in condensed …