Publications

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Papers (* indicates equal contribution):

• Xingyu Gao*, Sumukh Vaidya*, Kejun Li, Saakshi Dikshit, Shimin Zhang, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen, Yuanbin Jin, Yuan Ping, Tongcang Li. “Single nuclear spin detection and control in a van der Waals material.” Nature (2025)

• Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit, Zhenyao Fang, Andres E Llacsahuanga Alcca, Yong P Chen, Qimin Yan, and Tongcang Li. “Coherent Spins in van der Waals Semiconductor GeS2 at Ambient Conditions.” ACS Nano Letters (2025)

• Souvik Biswas, Giovanni Scuri, Noah Huffman, Eric I. Rosenthal, 3 Ruotian Gong, Thomas Poirier, Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Abigail J. Stein, Tsachy Weissman, James H. Edgar, Tongcang Li, Chong Zu, Jelena Vuckovic, and Joonhee Choi. “Quantum sensing with a spin ensemble in a two-dimensional material.” Arxiv (2025)

• Songtao Wu, Biswajit Sahoo, Naveed Hussain, Alejandro Ruiz, Sumukh Vaidya, Saakshi Dikshit, Hayate Yamano, Katsunori Danno, Chen Ling, Shougo Higashi, Tongcang Li, Debasish Banerjee. “A Power-Efficient Coplanar Waveguide Design for Enhanced Optical Readout in h-BN Quantum Sensors” ACS Nano Letters (2025)

• Mohammad Abdullah Sadi, , Luca Basso, David A Fehr, Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Emmeline G Riendeau, Gajadhar Joshi, Tongcang Li, Michael E Flatté Andrew M Mounce, and Yong P Chen. “Spin-State Selective Excitation in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride.” ACS Nano Letters (2025)

• Xingyu Gao*, Sumukh Vaidya*, Saakshi Dikshit, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen, Yuanbin Jin, Shixiong Zhang, and Tongcang Li. “Nanotube spin defects for omnidirectional magnetic field sensing.” Nature Communications (2024)

• Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit, Igor Aharonovich, and Tongcang Li. “Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride.” Advances in Physics: X (2023)

• Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju, Saakshi Dikshit, Kunhong Shen, Yong P. Chen, and Tongcang Li. “Quantum sensing of paramagnetic spins in liquids with spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride.” ACS Photonics (2023)

• Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li, Peng Ju, Boyang Jiang, Zhujing Xu, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca et al. “Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride.” Nature Materials (2022)

• Nakul Jain, Rishabh Saxena, Sumukh Vaidya, Wenchao Huang, Adam Welford, Christopher R. McNeill, and Dinesh Kabra. “Light induced quasi-Fermi level splitting in molecular semiconductor alloys.” Materials Advances (2022)

• Sumukh Vaidya .”Autoencoders for Denoising of Poisson Noise Limited Biological Images” Course Project, ECE570 (Fall 2022) Report

• Gangadhar Banappanavar, Sumukh Vaidya, Urvashi Bothra, Lohitha R. Hegde, Kamendra P. Sharma, Richard H. Friend, and Dinesh Kabra. “Novel optoelectronic technique for direct tracking of ultrafast triplet excitons in polymeric semiconductor.” Applied Physics Reviews(2021)