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most citedIdentifying Carbon as the Source of Visible Single Photon Emission from Hexagonal Boron Nitride

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18 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Reliable density functional and G_0 W_0 approaches to the calculation of bandgaps in 2D materials

Musen Li, Michael J. Ford, Rika Kobayashi +2

Optimizing density-functional theory (DFT) and G0W0 calculations present coupled problems as orbitals from DFT are needed as G0W0 starting points. Applied to 341 two-dimensional (2…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Identification of the Chromophores in Prussian blue

Li Musen, Robin Purchase, Parvin Safari +6

Prussian blue was the world's first synthetic dye. Its structural, optical and magnetic properties have led to many applications in technology and medicine, and provide paradigms f…

quant-ph2023★ 20 cited

Simulating optical linear absorption for mesoscale molecular aggregates: an adaptive hierarchy of pure states approach

Tarun Gera, Lipeng Chen, Alex Eisfeld +3

In this paper, we present a new method for calculating linear absorption spectra for large molecular aggregates, called dyadic adaptive HOPS (DadHOPS). This method combines the ada…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 96 cited

Accurate prediction of the properties of materials using the CAM-B3LYP Density Functional

Musen Li, Jeffrey R. Reimers, Michael J. Ford +2

Density functionals with asymptotic corrections to the long-range potential provide entry-level methods for calculations on molecules that can sustain charge transfer, but similar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 113 cited

Photoluminescence and photochemistry of the defect in hexagonal boron nitride

Jeffrey R. Reimers, Jun Shen, Mehran Kianinia +4

Extensive photochemical and spectroscopic properties of the defect in hexagonal boron nitride are calculated, concluding that the observed photoemission associated with rec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 23 cited

Possible nanophotonics applications of the defect in hexagonal boron nitride

A. Sajid, Jeffrey R. Reimers, Rika Kobayashi +1

The defect in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), comprising a nitrogen vacancy adjacent to a nitrogen-for-boron substitution, is modelled in regard to its possible usefulnes…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 17 cited

Convergence of defect energetics calculations

Jeffrey R. Reimers, A. Sajid, Rika Kobayashi +1

Determination of the chemical and spectroscopic natures of defects in materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) remains a serious challenge for both experiment and theory. T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 14 cited

Density functionals with asymptotic-potential corrections are required for the simulation of spectroscopic properties of materials

Musen Li, Rika Kobayashi, Roger D. Amos +2

Five effects of correction of the asymptotic potential error in density functionals are identified that significantly improve calculated properties of molecular excited states invo…

physics.app-ph2020★ 394 cited

Identifying Carbon as the Source of Visible Single Photon Emission from Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Noah Mendelson, Dipankar Chugh, Jeffrey R. Reimers +14

Single photon emitters (SPEs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have garnered significant attention over the last few years due to their superior optical properties. However, despit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 3 cited

Identification of defects responsible for optically detected magnetic resonance in hexagonal boron nitride

A Sajid, Kristian S Thygesen, Jeffrey R Reimers +1

Crystal defects in the two-dimensional insulator hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can host localised electronic states that are candidates for applications in quantum technology, yet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 177 cited

Single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride: A review of progress

A. Sajid, Michael J. Ford, Jeffrey R. Reimers

This report summarizes progress made in understanding properties such as zero-phonon-line energies, emission and absorption polarizations, electron-phonon couplings, strain tuning…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 23 cited

Faraday-cage screening reveals intrinsic aspects of the van der Waals attraction

Musen Li, Jeffrey R. Reimers, John F. Dobson +1

General properties of the recently observed screening of the van der Waals (vdW) attraction between a silica substrate and silica tip by insertion of graphene are predicted using b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Van der Waals forces control ferroelectric-antiferroelectric ordering in ABP2X6 laminar materials

Jeffrey R. Reimers, Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik, Michael J. Ford

We show how van der Waals (vdW) forces outcompete covalent and ionic forces to control ferroelectric ordering in CuInP2S6 nanoflakes as well as in CuInP2S6 and CuBiP2Se6 crystals.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

van der Waals forces control the internal chemical structure of monolayers within ABP2X6 lamellar materials

Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik, Jeffrey R. Reimers, Catherine Stampfl +1

Following the recent demonstration that van der Waals forces control the ferroelectric ordering of layers within nanoflakes and bulk samples of CuBiP2Se6 and CuInP2S6, it is demons…

physics.chem-ph2018★ 28 cited

Energy flow in the Photosystem I supercomplex: comparison of approximative theories with DM-HEOM

Tobias Kramer, Matthias Noack, Jeffrey R Reimers +3

We analyze the exciton dynamics in PhotosystemI from Thermosynechococcus elongatus using the distributed memory implementation of the hierarchical equation of motion (DM-HEOM) for…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 93 cited

Understanding and calibrating Density-Functional-Theory calculations describing the energy and spectroscopy of defect sites in hexagonal boron nitride

Jeffrey R. Reimers, Ali Sajid, Rika Kobayashi +1

Defect states in 2D materials present many possible uses but both experimental and computational characterization of their spectroscopic properties is difficult. We provide and com…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 183 cited

Defect states in hexagonal boron nitride: Assignments of observed properties and prediction of properties relevant to quantum computation

A. Sajid, Jeffrey R. Reimers, Michael J. Ford

Key properties of nine possible defect sites in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are predicted using density-functional theory and are corrected by applying results from high-level a…

quant-ph2011★ 71 cited

Quantum entanglement between electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules

Laura K. McKemmish, Ross H. McKenzie, Noel S. Hush +1

We consider the quantum entanglement of the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom in molecules with a tendency towards double welled potentials using model coupled harmonic…