Room-temperature quantum entanglement in a van der Waals material

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23170v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:02:06 GMT
• Title: Room-temperature quantum entanglement in a van der Waals material
• Authors: Xingyu Gao, Zhun Ge, Saakshi Dikshit, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju, Tongcang Li,
• Abstract summary: Entangling qubits in 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials remains elusive.<n>We report room-temperature quantum entanglement between an optically addressable electron spin and a strongly coupled $13$C nuclear spin in hBN.<n>These results establish entangled spin qubits in hBN as a robust platform for advanced quantum technologies based on 2D materials.
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• Abstract: 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 spatial resolution reaching 1 nm demonstrated using scanning probe techniques. However, entangling qubits in vdW materials remains elusive. Here we report room-temperature quantum entanglement between an optically addressable electron spin and a strongly coupled $^{13}$C nuclear spin in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We extend the electron spin coherence to 38 $\mu$s with dynamical decoupling, and create maximally entangled Bell states with a fidelity up to 0.89. We further use the nuclear spin as a long-lived quantum memory to enhance AC magnetic field sensing via correlation spectroscopy. These results establish entangled spin qubits in hBN as a robust platform for advanced quantum technologies based on 2D materials.

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