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most citedEntanglement of a nuclear spin qubit register in silicon photonics

8 citations · 13 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Facilitated Relaxation Overrides Energetic Pathways in a Multiphase Square-Kagome Artificial Spin Ice

Wen-Cheng Yue, Zixiong Yuan, Peiyuan Huang +18

Relaxation in interacting many-body systems is typically assumed to follow energy minimization, yet local dynamical rules can determine which microscopic pathways are accessible. I…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Geometric Superconducting Diode Effect in an NbN Nanoring

Tianyu Li, Peiyuan Huang, Jiong Li +14

Superconducting diodes, which exhibit nonreciprocal critical currents, are promising building blocks for low-power cryogenic electronics and superconducting circuits. Existing supe…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Evaluating the Structural Basis for Polar Altermagnet Candidate Ca(Ru,Ti)O

Akash Saha, Yihuang Xiong, Vladimir A. Stoica +15

The interplay between polar and altermagnetic orders remains largely unexplored in the broader landscape of correlated electron systems. Density functional theory (DFT) within the…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Nanoscale electrothermal-switch superconducting diode for electrically programmable superconducting circuits

Tianyu Li, Jiong Li, Chong Li +13

Superconducting diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. He…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Silicon T centre hyperfine structure and memory protection schemes

Nicholas Brunelle, Joshua Kanaganayagam, Mehdi Keshavarz +11

Combining the long-coherence of spin qubits and the capability to transmit information and entanglement through photons, spin-photon interfaces (SPIs) are a promising platform for…

cs.LG2025

ADAPT: Lightweight, Long-Range Machine Learning Force Fields Without Graphs

Evan Dramko, Yihuang Xiong, Yizhi Zhu +4

Point defects play a central role in driving the properties of materials. First-principles methods are widely used to compute defect energetics and structures, including at scale f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

First principles and scanning tunneling spectroscopical evidences for thermodynamically stable "on-top" sulfur divacancy in monolayer WS

Weiru Chen, John C. Thomas, Yihuang Xiong +10

Chalcogen vacancies in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as WS, play a crucial role in various applications ranging from optoelectronics and catalysis t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

First principles computations of the Stark shift of a defect-bound exciton: the case of the T center in silicon

Louis Alaerts, Yihuang Xiong, Sinéad M. Griffin +1

The T center in silicon has recently drawn a lot of attention for its potential in quantum information science. The sensitivity of the zero-phonon line (ZPL) to electrical field wa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

SCF in \texttt{VASP} for excited-state defect computations: tips and pitfalls

Yihuang Xiong, Geoffroy Hautier

SCF with constrained occupations have been wildly used to investigate the excited-state and optical properties of defects. Recent studies have demonstrated that combining SCF…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Identifying high performance spectrally-stable quantum defects in diamond

Yihuang Xiong, Yizhi Zhu, Shay McBride +2

Point defects in semiconductors are becoming central to quantum technologies. They can be used as spin qubits interfacing with photons, which are fundamental for building quantum n…

quant-ph2025★ 8 cited

Entanglement of a nuclear spin qubit register in silicon photonics

Hanbin Song, Xueyue Zhang, Lukasz Komza +9

Color centers provide an optical interface to quantum registers based on electron and nuclear spin qubits in solids. The T center in silicon is an emerging spin-photon interface th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Discovery of T center-like quantum defects in silicon

Yihuang Xiong, Jiongzhi Zheng, Shay McBride +3

Quantum technologies would benefit from the development of high performance quantum defects acting as single-photon emitters or spin-photon interface. Finding such a quantum defect…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Optical transition parameters of the silicon T centre

Chloe Clear, Sara Hosseini, Amirhossein AlizadehKhaledi +14

The silicon T centre's narrow, telecommunications-band optical emission, long spin coherence, and direct photonic integration have spurred interest in this emitter as a spin-photon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

The Defects Genome of 2D Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Mohammed Sayyad, Jan Kopaczek, Carmem M. Gilardoni +9

Two-dimensional (2D) Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted much interest due to their exciting quantum properties arising from their unique two-faced structu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

A first principles study of the Stark shift effect on the zero-phonon line of the NV center in diamond

Louis Alaerts, Yihuang Xiong, Sinéad Griffin +1

Point defects in semiconductors are attractive candidates for quantum information science applications owing to their ability to act as spin-photon interface or single-photon emitt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Compressive-Sensing-Enhanced First-Principles Calculation of Photoluminescence Spectra in Color Centers: A Comparison between Theory and Experiment for the G Center in Silicon

Jiongzhi Zheng, Lukasz Komza, Yihuang Xiong +5

Photoluminescence (PL) spectra are a versatile tool for exploring the electronic and optical properties of quantum defect systems. In this work, we investigate the PL spectra of th…