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 …

Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

The global quantum internet will require long-lived, telecommunications-band photon–
matter interfaces manufactured at scale. Preliminary quantum networks based on photon …

The colour centre platform holds promise for quantum technologies, and hexagonal boron
nitride has attracted attention due to the high brightness and stability, optically addressable …

Silicon is the most scalable optoelectronic material but has suffered from its inability to
generate directly and efficiently classical or quantum light on-chip. Scaling and integration …

Structuring light emission from single-photon emitters (SPEs) in multiple degrees of freedom
is of great importance for quantum information processing towards higher dimensions …

In monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides, localized strain can be used to design
nanoarrays of single photon sources. Despite strong empirical correlation, the nanoscale …

Discoveries in quantum materials, which are characterized by the strongly quantum-
mechanical nature of electrons and atoms, have revealed exotic properties that arise from …

Engineered point defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials offer an attractive platform for
solid-state devices that exploit tailored optoelectronic, quantum emission, and resistive …

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is gaining considerable attention as a solid-state host of
quantum emitters from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared spectral ranges. However, the …