# Elementary excitations of single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01866-4

## Date published

2024-04-23

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2024-9

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## Title

- title: Elementary excitations of single-photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Single-photon emitters serve as building blocks for many emerging concepts
    in quantum photonics. The recent identification of bright, tunable and stable
    emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has opened the door to quantum platforms
    operating across the infrared to ultraviolet spectrum. Although it is widely acknowledged
    that defects are responsible for single-photon emitters in hBN, crucial details
    regarding their origin, electronic levels and orbital involvement remain unknown.
    Here we employ a combination of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and photoluminescence
    spectroscopy in defective hBN, unveiling an elementary excitation at 285 meV that
    gives rise to a plethora of harmonics correlated with single-photon emitters.
    We discuss the importance of N π* anti-bonding orbitals in shaping the electronic
    states of the emitters. The discovery of elementary excitations in hBN provides
    fundamental insights into quantum emission in low-dimensional materials, paving
    the way for future investigations in other platforms.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: en

## Creator

- name: Jonathan Pelliciari
  role: author
- name: Enrique Mejia
  role: author
- name: John M. Woods
  role: author
- name: Yanhong Gu
  role: author
- name: Jiemin Li
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- name: Saroj B. Chand
  role: author
- name: Shiyu Fan
  role: author
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Valentina Bisogni
  role: author
- name: Gabriele Grosso
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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: Single-photon emitters
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- subject: Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)
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- subject: Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
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- identifier: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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## Journal

- title: Nature Materials
  issn: '14764660'
  volume: '23'
  issue: '9'
  start_page: 1230
  end_page: 1236

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## Funding

- funder_name: DOE | LDRD | Brookhaven National Laboratory
- funder_name: DOE | Office of Science
- funder_name: DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences
- funder_name: CUNY | Graduate Center

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