{"id":239362,"date":"2026-06-20T06:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-new-way-to-control-tiny-quantum-light-sources-by-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-of-hexagonal-boron-nitride"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:09:55","slug":"a-new-way-to-control-tiny-quantum-light-sources-by-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-of-hexagonal-boron-nitride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-new-way-to-control-tiny-quantum-light-sources-by-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-of-hexagonal-boron-nitride","title":{"rendered":"A new way to control tiny quantum light sources by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-control-tiny-quantum-light-sources-by-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-of-hexagonal-boron-nitride.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aec0101\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Kyung Hee University have found a new way to control quantum light sources, which is one of the key elements needed before quantum technologies can be used reliably in real-world systems.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Dr. Angus Gale says the research gives scientists a new control mechanism for tiny quantum light sources, bringing them a step closer to being used in practical quantum technologies such as quantum computing, secure communication and ultrasensitive sensing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can measure these quantum emitters and see that they exist, but it\u2019s hard to make them work in practice. This gives us a lever to get closer to that\u2014a step toward the realization of quantum technologies,\u201d said Dr. Gale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Kyung Hee University have found a new way to control quantum light sources, which is one of the key elements needed before quantum technologies can be used reliably in real-world systems. Lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}