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most citedRoom Temperature Initialisation and Readout of Intrinsic Spin Defects in a Van der Waals Crystal

557 citations · 1.9k across the 67 of their papers we have counts for

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69 papers

quant-ph2026

Engineering of Dual Wavelength, Polarization Selective Metalenses in Silicon Carbide

Xiaoying Huang, Ziwei Yang, Konosuke Shimazaki +7

Spin defects in silicon carbide (SiC) are promising candidates for integrated quantum photonics, offering long-lived spin states and near-infrared emission suitable for low-loss ph…

quant-ph2026

On chip, multifunctional quantum sensing using single spins in a van der Waals crystal

James Liddle-Wesolowski, Konosuke Shimazaki, Jiyun Kim +5

Nanoscale thermometry and magnetometry are in high demand across a wide range of scientific and technological applications. In this context, optically addressable spins in solids h…

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…

physics.optics2026

Mid-Infrared Modulation of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Karin Yamamura, Xinyang Yu, Chaohao Chen +3

Single photon emitters (SPEs) are promising building blocks for practical devices in quantum technologies. Traditionally, these systems are excited using off-resonant visible light…

physics.optics2026

Coupling nitrogen vacancy centers in silicon carbide to nanophotonic resonators

Ivan Zhigulin, Konosuke Shimazaki, Samuel M. Stephens +5

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising platform for scalable quantum technologies owing to its well-established, wafer-scale industrial processing. SiC also hosts a variety of optica…

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…

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…

physics.optics2026

Deterministic integration of quantum emitters and optical cavities in a van der Waals crystal

James Liddle-Wesolowski, Otto Cranwell Schaeper, Nathan Coste +6

Single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) combine bright optical emission with optically addressable spin states, offering a promising platform for integrated quantum…

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

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…

physics.optics2025

Quantum Emitters in Rhombohedral Boron Nitride

Angus Gale, Mehran Kianinia, Jake Horder +8

Rhombohedral boron nitride (rBN) is an emerging wide-bandgap van der Waals (vdW) material that combines strong second-order nonlinear optical properties with the structural flexibi…

quant-ph2025

Generation of narrowband quantum emitters in hBN with optically addressable spins

Benjamin Whitefield, Helen Zhi Jie Zeng, James Liddle-Wesolowski +8

Electron spins coupled with optical transitions in solids stand out as a promising platform for developing spin-based quantum technologies. Recently, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)…

quant-ph2024★ 39 cited

Quantum Optics Applications of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Defects

Aslı Çakan, Chanaprom Cholsuk, Angus Gale +6

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as a compelling platform for both classical and quantum technologies. In particular, the past decade has witnessed a surge of novel ideas…

quant-ph2024

Decoherence of Quantum Emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Jake Horder, Dominic Scognamiglio, Nathan Coste +6

Coherent quantum emitters are a central resource for advanced quantum technologies. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts a range of quantum emitters that can be engineered using tec…

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★ 1 cited

Quantum Efficiency the B-centre in hexagonal boron nitride

Karin Yamamura, Nathan Coste, Helen Zhi Jie Zeng +3

B-centres in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are gaining significant research interest for quantum photonics applications due to precise emitter positioning and highly reproducible e…

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,…

quant-ph2024

Fast characterization of optically detected magnetic resonance spectra via data clustering

Dylan G. Stone, Benjamin Whitefield, Mehran Kianinia +1

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) has become a well-established and powerful technique for measuring the spin state of solid-state quantum emitters, at room temperature.…

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…

quant-ph2024

Fibre-integrated van der Waals quantum sensor with an optimal cavity interface

Jong Sung Moon, Benjamin Whitefield, Lesley Spencer +6

Integrating quantum materials with fibre optics adds advanced functionalities to a variety of applications, and introduces fibre-based quantum devices such as remote sensors capabl…

quant-ph2024

Near-coherent quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with discrete polarization axes

Jake Horder, Dominic Scognamiglio, Ádám Ganyecz +4

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has recently gained attention as a solid state host of quantum emitters. However, hBN emitters reported to date lack the properties needed for their d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 48 cited

Multi-species optically addressable spin defects in a van der Waals material

Sam C. Scholten, Priya Singh, Alexander J. Healey +11

Optically addressable spin defects hosted in two-dimensional van der Waals materials represent a new frontier for quantum technologies, promising to lead to a new class of ultrathi…

physics.optics2023★ 36 cited

Optically addressable spin defects coupled to bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Luca Sortino, Angus Gale, Lucca Kühner +9

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, including hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), are layered crystalline solids with appealing properties for investigating light-matter interactions at the…