BACKGROUND The past two decades have seen intense efforts aimed at building quantum
computing hardware with the potential to solve problems that are intractable on classical …

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

Spins associated with single defects in solids provide promising qubits for quantum-
information processing and quantum networks. Recent experiments have demonstrated …

Spins of impurities in solids provide a unique architecture to realize quantum technologies.
A quantum register of electron and nearby nuclear spins in the lattice encompasses high …

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 …

In the past decade, semiconducting qubits have made great strides in overcoming
decoherence, improving the prospects for scalability and have become one of the leading …

A central goal in quantum optics and quantum information science is the development of
quantum networks to generate entanglement between distributed quantum memories …

“Quantum sensing” describes the use of a quantum system, quantum properties, or quantum
phenomena to perform a measurement of a physical quantity. Historical examples of …

Single-photon emitters play an important role in many leading quantum technologies. There
is still no'ideal'on-demand single-photon emitter, but a plethora of promising material …

An outstanding hurdle for defect spin qubits in silicon carbide (SiC) is single-shot readout, a
deterministic measurement of the quantum state. Here, we demonstrate single-shot readout …