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most citedCoupling of silicon-vacancy centers to a single crystal diamond cavity

74 citations · 107 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Persistence and emergence of quantum defects through pressure-induced phase changes

Alexander J Healey, Alan Salek, Christopher T-K Lew +15

Extreme pressures can transform materials and their properties, but probing these in-situ is made challenging by the small sample volumes and access requirements demanded by diamon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Optical spin defect pairs in cubic boron nitride

Josiah E. Hsi, Islay O. Robertson, Abhijit Biswas +9

Room-temperature optically active solid-state spin defects are widely known to be useful in quantum sensing applications, however, only a select range of materials have been found…

physics.optics2026

Mid-infrared reconfiguration of population flow in lanthanide nanocrystals

Xinyang Yu, Yin Huang, Karin Yamamura +15

Converting mid-infrared (MIR) radiation to visible or near-infrared wavelengths is essential for imaging and sensing, yet achieving sensitive, low-power, and scalable detection rem…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Omnidirectional magnetic imaging of magnetic anisotropy and phase transitions

Alexander J Healey, Kaijian Xing, Weiyao Zhao +7

Micron scale imaging of magnetic fields is an important tool for understanding the evolution of magnetism through phase transitions and as a result of interactions inside of hetero…

quant-ph2026

Pulsed coherent spectroscopy of a quantum emitter in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Jake Horder, Hugo Quard, Kenji Watanabe +3

Defects in solid-state systems constitute a promising platform for the realization of deterministic quantum emitters. Among many candidate materials and emitters, point defects in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Multi-wavelength Spin Dynamics of Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Ivan Zhigulin, Nicholas P. Sloane, Benjamin Whitefield +3

Optically addressable solid-state spin defects are essential platforms for quantum sensing and information processing. Recently, single spin defects with combined S = 1 and S = 1/2…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Photodynamics and Temperature Dependence of Single Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Benjamin Whitefield, Ivan Zhigulin, Nicholas P. Sloane +3

Quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that exhibit optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) signatures have recently garnered significant attention as an emerging s…

quant-ph2025★ 7 cited

Quantifying Spin Defect Density in hBN via Raman and Photoluminescence Analysis

Atanu Patra, Paul Konrad, Andreas Sperlich +6

Negatively charged boron vacancies () in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are emerging as promising solid-state spin qubits due to their optical accessibility, structu…

quant-ph2025

Intermediate Excited State Relaxation Dynamics of Boron Vacancy Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Paul Konrad, Mehran Kianinia, Lesley Spencer +5

Optically addressable spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride offer promising potential for 2D quantum sensing, though excited-state dynamics remain poorly understood. In particula…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 14 cited

Violet to near-infrared optical addressing of spin pairs in hexagonal boron nitride

Priya Singh, Islay O. Robertson, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically addressable solid-state spins are an important platform for practical quantum technologies. Van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a promising host as it…

physics.optics2024

Double Etch Method for the Fabrication of Nanophotonic Devices from Van der Waals Materials

Otto Cranwell Schaeper, Lesley Spencer, Dominic Scognamiglio +8

The integration of van der Waals (vdW) materials into photonic devices has laid out a foundation for many new quantum and optoelectronic applications. Despite tremendous progress i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 2 cited

A charge transfer mechanism for optically addressable solid-state spin pairs

Islay O. Robertson, Benjamin Whitefield, Sam C. Scholten +9

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) with no resolvable zero-field splitting has been observed from emitters in hexagonal boron nitride across a broad range of wavelengths,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 10 cited

Optimisation of electron irradiation for creating spin ensembles in hexagonal boron nitride

Alexander J Healey, Priya Singh, Islay O Robertson +9

Boron vacancy centre () ensembles in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have attracted recent interest for their potential as two-dimensional solid-state quantum sensors. I…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 74 cited

Coupling of silicon-vacancy centers to a single crystal diamond cavity

Jonathan C. Lee, Igor Aharonovich, Andrew P. Magyar +2

Optical coupling of an ensemble of silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers to single-crystal diamond microdisk cavities is demonstrated. The cavities are fabricated from a single-crystal dia…