Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

S Vaidya, X Gao, S Dikshit, I Aharonovich… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising
candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN's high stability and two …

Quantum emitters in 2D materials: Emitter engineering, photophysics, and integration in photonic nanostructures

M Kianinia, ZQ Xu, M Toth, I Aharonovich - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum emitters have become a vital tool for both fundamental science and emerging
technologies. In recent years, the focus in the field has shifted to exploration and …

Wide field imaging of van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 by spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

M Huang, J Zhou, D Chen, H Lu, NJ McLaughlin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emergent color centers with accessible spins hosted by van der Waals materials have
attracted substantial interest in recent years due to their significant potential for …

Greatly enhanced emission from spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride enabled by a low-loss plasmonic nanocavity

X Xu, AB Solanki, D Sychev, X Gao, S Peana… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The negatively charged boron vacancy (VB–) defect in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with
optically addressable spin states has emerged due to its potential use in quantum sensing …

Spin-active defects in hexagonal boron nitride

W Liu, NJ Guo, S Yu, Y Meng, ZP Li… - Materials for …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum technology grown out of quantum information theory, including quantum
communication, quantum computation and quantum sensing, not only provides powerful …

Excited-state optically detected magnetic resonance of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Z Mu, H Cai, D Chen, J Kenny, Z Jiang, S Ru, X Lyu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Negatively charged boron vacancy (VB−) centers in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are
promising spin defects in a van der Waals crystal. Understanding the spin properties of the …

Coherent control of an ultrabright single spin in hexagonal boron nitride at room temperature

NJ Guo, S Li, W Liu, YZ Yang, XD Zeng, S Yu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a remarkable two-dimensional (2D) material that hosts
solid-state spins and has great potential to be used in quantum information applications …

Thickness-dependent drude plasma frequency in transdimensional plasmonic TiN

D Shah, M Yang, Z Kudyshev, X Xu, VM Shalaev… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic transdimensional materials (TDMs), which are atomically thin metals of precisely
controlled thickness, are expected to exhibit large tailorability and dynamic tunability of their …

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 …

Excited-state spectroscopy of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

P Yu, H Sun, M Wang, T Zhang, X Ye, J Zhou, H Liu… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
A negatively charged boron vacancy (VB–) color center in hexagonal boron nitride has
recently been proposed as a promising quantum sensor due to its excellent properties …