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20162026
most citedNanofabricated and integrated colour centres in silicon carbide with high-coherence spin-optical properties

197 citations · 910 across the 42 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

quant-ph2026

Scalable integration of silicon carbide color centers into nanophotonic structures

Raphael Wörnle, Jonas Schmid, Dennis Grüner +7

Color centers in silicon carbide are a promising platform for quantum technologies, offering long-coherence electron and nuclear spins for storing and manipulating quantum informat…

physics.optics2026

Electrically Reconfigurable Silicon Carbide Nanophotonic Cavities on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate

San Lam Ng, Georgii Grechko, Vladislav Bushmakin +4

Interfacing integrated photonics with solid-state spin defects holds great promise for future quantum networks, but the scaling of spin-photon architectures is hindered by frequenc…

quant-ph2026

RF-free driving of nuclear spins with color centers in silicon carbide

Raphael Wörnle, Jonathan Körber, Timo Steidl +5

Color centers that enable nuclear-spin control without RF fields offer a powerful route towards simplified and scalable quantum devices. Such capabilities are especially valuable f…

quant-ph2025

Localization and coherent control of 25 nuclear spins in Silicon Carbide

Pierre Kuna, Erik Hesselmeier-Hüttmann, Phillip Schillinger +7

Optically addressable spin defects are excellent candidate platform for quantum sensing and quantum network. Nuclear spins coupled to color centers naturally enable long lived quan…

quant-ph2025

Waveguide-integrated colour centres in silicon carbide with broadband photonic crystal reflectors for efficient readout

Marcel Krumrein, Julian M. Bopp, Timo Steidl +5

Spin-active colour centres in 4H silicon carbide are promising candidates as building blocks for quantum information applications. To increase the photon count rate of the emitters…

quant-ph2025

Converting coherence into work with a fully quantum engine

MinSik Kwon, Tobias Denzler, Rouven Maier +4

Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work. We here report the experimental realization of a fully quantum engine that converts quantum coherence into work. A single…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Readout of a solid state spin ensemble at the projection noise limit

Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Andrej Denisenko +4

Spin ensembles are central to quantum science, from frequency standards and fundamental physics searches to magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum sensing. Their performance i…

physics.optics2025

Optical levitation of fluorescent silicon carbide nanoparticles in vacuum

Seyed Khalil Alavi, Cheng-I Ho, Iuliia Neumann +4

Levitated optomechanics is an emerging field in quantum science that explores the quantum motion of mesoscopic particles levitated in a vacuum. Expanding this approach to particles…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Efficient Detection of Statistical RF Fields at High Magnetic Field with a Quantum Sensor

Rouven Maier, Cheng-I Ho, Hitoshi Sumiya +4

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is widely used in fields ranging from chemistry, material science to neuroscience. Nanoscale NMR spectroscopy using Nitrogen-vacancy (…

quant-ph2024

Readout of strongly coupled NV center-pair spin states with deep neural networks

Matthew Joliffe, Vadim Vorobyov, Jörg Wrachtrup

Optically addressable electron spin clusters are of interest for quantum computation, simulation and sensing. However, with interaction length scales of a few tens of nanometers in…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Modeling Quantum Volume Using Randomized Benchmarking of Room-Temperature NV Center Quantum Registers

Tom Jaeger, MinSik Kwon, Max Keller +9

Accurately estimating the performance of quantum hardware is crucial for comparing different platforms and predicting the performance and feasibility of quantum algorithms and appl…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Two-Photon Interference of Photons from Remote Tin-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Vladislav Bushmakin, Oliver von Berg, Colin Sauerzapf +8

Scalable quantum networks rely on optical connections between long-lived qubits to distribute entanglement. Tin vacancies in diamond have emerged as promising long-lived qubits, of…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Single V2 defect in 4H Silicon Carbide Schottky diode at low temperature

Timo Steidl, Pierre Kuna, Erik Hesselmeier-Hüttmann +10

Nanoelectrical and photonic integration of quantum optical components is crucial for scalable solid-state quantum technologies. Silicon carbide stands out as a material with mature…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Efficient nuclear spin - photon entanglement with optical routing

Javid Javadzade, Majid Zahedian, Florian Kaiser +2

Quantum networks and distributed quantum computers rely on entanglement generation between photons and long-lived quantum memories. For large-scale architectures, one of the most c…

quant-ph2024

Blueprint for efficient nuclear spin characterization with color center

Majid Zahedian, Vadim Vorobyov, Jörg Wrachtrup

Nuclear spins in solids offer a promising avenue for developing scalable quantum hardware. Leveraging nearby single-color centers, these spins can be efficiently addressed at the s…

quant-ph2024

Loophole-free test of macroscopic realism via high-order correlations of measurement

Ping Wang, Chong Chen, Hao Liao +3

Test of {macroscopic realism} (MR) is key to understanding the foundation of quantum mechanics. Due to the existence of the {non-invasive measurability} loophole and other interpre…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

High fidelity optical readout of a nuclear spin qubit in Silicon Carbide

Erik Hesselmeier, Oliver von Berg, Pierre Kuna +7

Quantum state readout is a key requirement for a successful qubit platform. In this work we demonstrate a high fidelity quantum state readout of a V2 center nuclear spin based on a…

quant-ph2023★ 14 cited

Measuring nuclear spin qubits by qudit-enhanced spectroscopy in Silicon Carbide

Erik Hesselmeier, Pierre Kuna, István Takács +8

Nuclear spins with hyperfine coupling to single electron spins are highly valuable quantum bits. In this work we probe and characterise the particularly rich nuclear spin environme…

quant-ph2022

On readout and initialisation fidelity by finite demolition single shot readout

Majid Zahedian, Max Keller, Minsik Kwon +4

Ideal projective quantum measurement makes the system state collapse in one of the observable operator eigenstates , making it a powerful tool for preparing the system…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Quantum Heterodyne Sensing of Nuclear Spins via Double Resonance

Jonas Meinel, Minsik Kwon, Durga Dasari +5

Nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals can be measured through hyperfine interaction to paramagnetic electron sensor spins. A heterodyne approach is widely used to over…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

A Quantum Optical Microphone in the Audio Band

Raphael Nold, Charles Babin, Joel Schmidt +12

The ability to perform high-precision optical measurements is paramount to science and engineering. Laser interferometry enables interaction-free sensing with a precision ultimatel…

quant-ph2022

Self-testing randomness from a nuclear spin system

Xing Chen, Minsik Kwon, Vadim Vorobyov +2

Randomness is a very important resource for cryptography, algorithms, and scientific simulations. Since all classical processes are considered to be intrinsically deterministic, we…

quant-ph2021★ 16 cited

Quantum-assisted Distortion-free audio signal sensing

Chen Zhang, Durga Dasari, Matthias Widmann +9

Quantum sensors are keeping the cutting-edge sensitivities in metrology. However, for high-sensitive measurements of arbitrary signals, limitations in linear dynamic range could in…

physics.ins-det2021★ 4 cited

Optimization of the double electron-electron resonance for C-centers in diamond

Olga R. Rubinas, Vladimir V. Soshenko, Stepan V. Bolshedvorskii +7

NV centers in diamond recommend themselves as good sensors of environmental fields as well as detectors of diamond impurities. In particular, C-centers, often also called ${{p}_{1}…