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most citedGeneration of Spin Defects by Ion Implantation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

101 citations · 518 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

An on-chip programmable mechano-quantum transducer

Xinrui Zhang, Wei Liu, Duanyu Ma +13

Solid-state spin defects encode local perturbations as measurable shifts in spin-transition frequencies, but mechanical actuation and quantum readout remain physically separated, r…

physics.optics2025

A hybrid-frequency on-chip programmable synthetic-dimension simulator with arbitrary couplings

Xiao-Dong Zeng, Zhao-An Wang, Jia-Ming Ren +17

High-performance photonic chips provide a powerful platform for analog computing, enabling the simulation of high-dimensional physical systems using low-dimensional devices with ad…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Temperature dependent single- and double-quantum relaxation of negatively charged boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride

Lin-Ke Xie, Wei Liu, Kaiyu Huang +14

The negatively charged boron vacancy in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum sensing. The coherence time of this defect spins wh…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Nanoscale positioning and in-situ enhancement of single G center in silicon using a fluorescence-localization technique

Yu-Hang Ma, Nai-Jie Guo, Wei Liu +12

Silicon-based semiconductor nanofabrication technology has achieved a remarkable level of sophistication and maturity, and color centers in silicon naturally inherit this advantage…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Magnetic measurements under high pressure with a quantum sensor in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lun-Xuan Yu, Nai-Jie Guo, Lin Liu +6

Magnetic measurements under high-pressure conditions are pivotal for the study of superconductivity and magnetic materials but remain challenging due to the micrometer-sized sample…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Versatile photonic frequency synthetic dimensions using a single Mach-Zehnder-interferometer-assisted device on thin-film lithium niobate

Zhao-An Wang, Xiao-Dong Zeng, Yi-Tao Wang +13

Investigating physical models with photonic synthetic dimensions has been generating great interest in vast fields of science. The rapid developing thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN)…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental observation of spin defects in van der Waals material GeS

W. Liu, S. Li, N. -J. Guo +14

Spin defects in atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) attract significant attention for their potential quantum applications. The lay…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental investigation of direct non-Hermitian measurement and uncertainty relation towards high-dimensional quantum domain

Yi-Tao Wang, Zhao-An Wang, Zhi-Peng Li +12

Non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems have unveiled novel phenomena, yet the implementation of valid non-Hermitian quantum measurement remains a challenge, because a universal…

quant-ph2024

Robust single divacancy defects near stacking faults in 4H-SiC under resonant excitation

Zhen-Xuan He, Ji-Yang Zhou, Wu-Xi Lin +13

Color centers in silicon carbide (SiC) have demonstrated significant promise for quantum information processing. However, the undesirable ionization process that occurs during opti…

quant-ph2023

Realization of algorithmic identification of cause and effect in quantum correlations

Zhao-An Wang, Yu Meng, Zheng-Hao Liu +10

Causal inference revealing causal dependencies between variables from empirical data has found applications in multiple sub-fields of scientific research. A quantum perspective of…

quant-ph2022★ 50 cited

A universal programmable Gaussian Boson Sampler for drug discovery

Shang Yu, Zhi-Peng Zhong, Yuhua Fang +21

Gaussian Boson Sampling (GBS) exhibits a unique ability to solve graph problems, such as finding cliques in complex graphs. It is noteworthy that many drug discovery tasks can be v…

quant-ph2022

Reflective Dielectric Cavity Enhanced Emission from Hexagonal Boron Nitride Spin Defect Arrays

Xiao-Dong Zeng, Yuan-Ze Yang, Nai-Jie Guo +12

Among the various kinds of spin defects in hBN, the negatively charged boron vacancy () spin defect that can be deterministically generated is undoubtedly a potential ca…

physics.optics2022★ 32 cited

Laser Direct Writing of Visible Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Applications in Spin-Based Technologies

Yuan-Ze Yang, Tian-Xiang Zhu, Zhi-Peng Li +15

Optically addressable spins in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) attract widespread attention for their potential advantage in on-chip quantum devices, such as quantum…

quant-ph2022★ 38 cited

Unimon qubit

Eric Hyyppä, Suman Kundu, Chun Fai Chan +22

Superconducting qubits are one of the most promising candidates to implement quantum computers. The superiority of superconducting quantum computers over any classical device in si…

physics.optics2021★ 76 cited

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

Nai-Jie Guo, Song Li, Wei Liu +16

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, inc…

quant-ph2021★ 101 cited

Generation of Spin Defects by Ion Implantation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

N. -J. Guo, W. Liu, Z. -P. Li +13

Optically addressable spin defects in wide-bandage semiconductors as promising systems for quantum information and sensing applications have attracted more and more attention recen…

quant-ph2021★ 68 cited

Coherent dynamics of multi-spin centers in hexagonal boron nitride

W. Liu, V. Ivády, Z. -P. Li +18

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently been demonstrated to contain optically polarized and detected electron spins that can be utilized for implementing qubits and quantum sen…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Temperature-dependent energy-level shifts of Spin Defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride

W. Liu, Z. -P. Li, Y. -Z. Yang +12

Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted large attentions as platforms for realizations for integrated nanophotonics and collective effort has been focused on th…

quant-ph2020★ 11 cited

Experimental observation of coherent-information superadditivity in a dephrasure channel

Shang Yu, Yu Meng, Raj B. Patel +9

We present an experimental approach to construct a dephrasure channel, which contains both dephasing and erasure noises, and can be used as an efficient tool to study the superaddi…

physics.optics2019★ 34 cited

An ultrastable and robust single-photon emitter in hexagonal boron nitride

Wei Liu, Yi-Tao Wang, Zhi-Peng Li +6

Quantum emitters in van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted lots of attentions in recent years, and shown great potentials to be fabricated as quantum photonic nanodevices. Es…

quant-ph2018★ 68 cited

Reconstruction of a Photonic Qubit State with Reinforcement Learning

Shang Yu, F. Albarran-Arriagada, J. C. Retamal +10

An experiment is performed to reconstruct an unknown photonic quantum state with a limited amount of copies. A semi-quantum reinforcement learning approach is employed to adapt one…

quant-ph2018★ 21 cited

Realization of a causal-modeled delayed-choice experiment using single photons

Shang Yu, Yong-Nan Sun, Wei Liu +6

Wave-particle duality constitutes one of the most intriguing features in quantum physics. A well-known gedanken experiment that provides evidence for this is the Wheeler's delayed-…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Experimentally detecting a quantum change point via Bayesian inference

Shang Yu, Chang-Jiang Huang, Jian-Shun Tang +15

Detecting a change point is a crucial task in statistics that has been recently extended to the quantum realm. A source state generator that emits a series of single photons in a d…