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most citedNuclear spin polarization and control in a van der Waals material

117 citations · 599 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2025

Roadmap: 2D Materials for Quantum Technologies

Qimin Yan, Tongcang Li, Xingyu Gao +29

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile and powerful platform for quantum technologies, offering atomic-scale control, strong quantum confinement, and seamless i…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Many-Body Entanglement in Solid-State Emitters

Emma Daggett, Christian M. Lange, Bennet Windt +23

The preparation and control of quantum states lie at the heart of quantum information science (QIS). Recent advances in solid-state quantum emitters (QEs) and nanophotonics have tr…

quant-ph2025

Room-temperature quantum entanglement in a van der Waals material

Xingyu Gao, Zhun Ge, Saakshi Dikshit +3

Entanglement is central to quantum science and technology. Atomic defects in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials offer exciting prospects for quantum sensing, with s…

quant-ph2025

Quantum sensing with a spin ensemble in a two-dimensional material

Souvik Biswas, Giovanni Scuri, Noah Huffman +12

Quantum sensing with solid-state spin defects has transformed nanoscale metrology, offering sub-wavelength spatial resolution with exceptional sensitivity to multiple signal types.…

quant-ph2025

Sub-Terahertz Spin Relaxation Dynamics of Boron-Vacancy Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Abhishek Bharatbhai Solanki, Yueh-Chun Wu, Hamza Ather +12

Quantum sensors based on spin-defect relaxation have become powerful tools for detecting faint magnetic signals, yet their operation has remained largely confined to low magnetic f…

quant-ph2025★ 8 cited

Coherent Spins in van der Waals Semiconductor GeS2 at Ambient Conditions

Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit +5

Optically active spin defects in van der Waals (vdW) materials have recently emerged as versatile quantum sensors, enabling applications from nanoscale magnetic field detection to…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Spin-State Selective Excitation in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mohammad Abdullah Sadi, Luca Basso, David A Fehr +8

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a promising two-dimensional platform for quantum sensing, due to its optically addressable spin defects, such as the negatively charged…

quant-ph2024★ 46 cited

Single nuclear spin detection and control in a van der Waals material

Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li +8

Optically active spin defects in solids are leading candidates for quantum sensing and quantum networking. Recently, single spin defects were discovered in hexagonal boron nitride…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 26 cited

Nanotube spin defects for omnidirectional magnetic field sensing

Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Saakshi Dikshit +5

Optically addressable spin defects in three-dimensional (3D) crystals and two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials are revolutionizing nanoscale quantum sensing. Spin def…

quant-ph2023★ 31 cited

Quantum control and Berry phase of electron spins in rotating levitated diamonds in high vacuum

Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju +4

Levitated diamond particles in high vacuum with internal spin qubits have been proposed for exploring macroscopic quantum mechanics, quantum gravity, and precision measurements. Th…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Møller-Plesset Perturbation Theory Calculations on Quantum Devices

Junxu Li, Xingyu Gao, Manas Sajjan +3

Accurate electronic structure calculations might be one of the most anticipated applications of quantum computing.The recent landscape of quantum simulations within the Hartree-Foc…

quant-ph2023★ 37 cited

Quantum sensing of paramagnetic spins in liquids with spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride

Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju +4

Paramagnetic ions and radicals play essential roles in biology and medicine, but detecting these species requires a highly sensitive and ambient-operable sensor. Optically addressa…

quant-ph2023★ 80 cited

Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit +2

Color centers in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently emerged as promising candidates for a new wave of quantum applications. Thanks to hBN's high stability and 2-dimensiona…

quant-ph2023★ 33 cited

Near-field GHz rotation and sensing with an optically levitated nanodumbbell

Peng Ju, Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen +5

A levitated non-spherical nanoparticle in a vacuum is ideal for studying quantum rotations and is an extremely sensitive torque and force detector. It has been proposed to probe fu…

quant-ph2022★ 75 cited

Coherent dynamics of strongly interacting electronic spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

Ruotian Gong, Guanghui He, Xingyu Gao +6

Optically active spin defects in van der Waals materials are promising platforms for modern quantum technologies. Here we investigate the coherent dynamics of strongly interacting…

physics.optics2022★ 55 cited

Greatly Enhanced Emission from Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Enabled by a Low-Loss Plasmonic Nano-Cavity

Xiaohui Xu, Abhishek. B. Solanki, Demid Sychev +13

Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been known to host a variety of quantum emitters with properties suitable for a broad range of quantum photonic applications. Amon…

quant-ph2022★ 117 cited

Nuclear spin polarization and control in a van der Waals material

Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li +11

Van der Waals layered materials are a focus of materials research as they support strong quantum effects and can easily form heterostructures. Electron spins in van der Waals mater…

quant-ph2022★ 24 cited

Switching and amplifying three-body Casimir effects

Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao +3

The dynamics of three interacting objects has been investigated extensively in Newtonian gravitational physics (often termed the three-body problem), and is important for many quan…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Stability of the discrete time-crystalline order in spin-optomechanical and open cavity QED systems

Zhengda Hu, Xingyu Gao, Tongcang Li

Discrete time crystals (DTC) have been demonstrated experimentally in several different quantum systems in the past few years. Spin couplings and cavity losses have been shown to p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 60 cited

Excited-state spin-resonance spectroscopy of V defect centers in hexagonal boron nitride

Nikhil Mathur, Arunabh Mukherjee, Xingyu Gao +5

The recently discovered spin-active boron vacancy (V) defect center in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has high contrast optically-detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) at…

math.NA2021

Numerical Analysis of the Multiple Scattering Theory for Electronic Structure Calculations

Xiaoxu Li, Huajie Chen, Xingyu Gao

The multiple scattering theory (MST) is one of the most widely used methods in electronic structure calculations. It features a perfect separation between the atomic configurations…

physics.optics2021

Broadband circularly polarized thermal radiation from magnetic Weyl semimetals

Yifan Wang, Chinmay Khandekar, Xingyu Gao +3

We numerically demonstrate that a planar slab made of magnetic Weyl semimetal (a class of topological materials) can emit high-purity circularly polarized (CP) thermal radiation ov…