Surveying optically addressable spin qubits for quantum information and sensing technology
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Published version
Author(s)
Tesiman, Calysta A
Oxborrow, Mark
Attwood, Max
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Quantum technologies offer ways to solve certain tasks more quickly, efficiently, and with greater precision than their classical counterparts. Yet substantial challenges remain in the construction of sufficiently error-free and scalable quantum platforms needed to unlock any real benefits to society. Acknowledging that this hardware can take vastly different forms, our review here focuses on materials that bear an optically-addressable electron or nuclear spin to embody qubits. Towards helping the reader to spot trends and pick winners, we have surveyed the various families of optically addressable spin qubits and attempted to benchmark and identify the most promising ones in each. We go on to reveal further trends that demonstrate how qubit lifetimes depend on the material’s synthesis, the concentration/distribution of its embedded qubits, and the experimental conditions.
Date Issued
2026-04-05
Date Acceptance
2026-03-22
Citation
npj Quantum Materials, 2026, 11
ISSN
2397-4648
Publisher
Nature Portfolio
Start Page
46
Journal / Book Title
npj Quantum Materials
Volume
11
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2026 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/42245538
PII: 877
Subjects
Materials science
Optics and photonics
Physics
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Article Number
46
Date Publish Online
2026-04-05