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Solid state spins in diamond, in particular negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy centers (NV), are leading contenders in the field of quantum sensing. While addressing of single NVs offers nanoscale spatial resolution, many implementations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yuchun Zhu , Elena Losero , Christophe Galland , Valentin Goblot

Temperature sensing at the nanoscale is a significant experimental challenge. Here, we report an approach using dressed states to make a leading quantum sensor (the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center in diamond) selectively sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Nathaniel M Beaver , Paul Stevenson

Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) are molecules that can function as nanoscale magnets with potential use as magnetic memory bits. While SMMs can retain magnetization at low temperatures, characterizing them on surface and at room temperature…

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable and versatile light-matter interfaces with practical application in magnetic field sensing, offering the ability to operate at room temperature and reach sensitivities below…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Arezoo Afshar , Andrew Proppe , Noah Lupu-Gladstein , Lilian Childress , Aaron Z. Goldberg , Khabat Heshami

Developing robust microwave-field sensors is both fundamentally and practically important with a wide range of applications from astronomy to communication engineering. The Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center in diamond is an attractive candidate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Zhecheng Wang , Fei Kong , Pengju Zhao , Zhehuang Huang , Pei Yu , Ya Wang , Fazhan Shi , Jiangfeng Du

We analyze magnetometry using an optically levitated nanodiamond. We consider a configuration where a magnetic field gradient couples the mechanical oscillation of the diamond with its spin degree of freedom provided by a Nitrogen vacancy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Pardeep Kumar , M. Bhattacharya

The detection of ensembles of spins under ambient conditions has revolutionized the biological, chemical, and physical sciences through magnetic resonance imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance. Pushing sensing capabilities to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 M. S. Grinolds , S. Hong , P. Maletinsky , L. Luan , M. D. Lukin , R. L. Walsworth , A. Yacoby

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers are defects in diamonds, which, due to their electronic structure, have been extensively studied as magnetic field sensors. Such field detection applications usually employ the NV centers to detect field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Shonali Dhingra , Brian D'Urso

Sensitive probing of temperature variations on nanometer scales represents an outstanding challenge in many areas of modern science and technology. In particular, a thermometer capable of sub-degree temperature resolution as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 G. Kucsko , P. C. Maurer , N. Y. Yao , M. Kubo , H. J. Noh , P. K. Lo , H. Park , M. D. Lukin

New magnetometry techniques based on Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) defects in diamond have received much attention of late as a means to probe nanoscale magnetic environments. The sensitivity of a single NV magnetometer is primarily determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Liam T. Hall , Charles D. Hill , Jared H. Cole , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

We demonstrate a technique for precision sensing of temperature or the magnetic field by simultaneously driving two hyperfine transitions involving distinct electronic states of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. Frequency modulation…

A single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for a solid-state quantum magnetometer capable of detecting single nuclear spins with prospective application to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) at the nanoscale.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Daiki Misonou , Kento Sasaki , Shuntaro Ishizu , Yasuaki Monnai , Kohei M. Itoh , Eisuke Abe

We present a sensitive diamond quantum sensor with a magnetic field sensitivity of $9.4 \pm 0.1~\mathrm{pT/\sqrt{Hz}}$ in a near-dc frequency range of 5 to 100~Hz. This sensor is based on the continuous-wave optically detected magnetic…

We propose a strategy to measure weak static magnetic fields with nitrogen-vacancy color center in diamond. Inspired by avian magnetoreception models, we consider the feasibility of utilizing quantum coherence phenomena to measure weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Lu-Si Li , Hong-Hui Li , Li-Li Zhou , Zhi-Sheng Yang , Qing Ai

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging with nanometer resolution requires new detection techniques with sensitivity well beyond the capability of conventional inductive detection. Here, we demonstrate two dimensional imaging of $^1$H NMR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Rugar , H. J. Mamin , M. H. Sherwood , M. Kim , C. T. Rettner , K. Ohno , D. D. Awschalom

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has become a widely used platform for quantum sensing. The four NV axes in mono-crystalline diamond specifically allow for vector magnetometry, with magnetic-field sensitivities reaching down to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Dennis Lönard , Isabel Cardoso Barbosa , Stefan Johansson , Jonas Gutsche , Artur Widera

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond is a prime candidate for quantum sensing technologies. Here, we present a fully integrated and mechanically robust fiber-based endoscopic sensor with a tip diameter of $1.25 \mathrm{mm}$. On its…

We summarize our new scanning magnetic 3-D imaging system. This scanning system uses optically detected magnetic resonance in a single nitrogen vacancy center in a diamond nanocrystal. The theoretical analysis and the first experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gennady P. Berman , Boris M. Chernobrod

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are atom-scale defects with long spin coherence times that can be used to sense magnetic fields with high sensitivity and spatial resolution. Typically, the magnetic field projection at a single…

We study the sensitive detection of a weak static magnetic field via Faraday rotation induced by an ensemble of spins in a bimodal degenerate microwave cavity. We determine the limit of the resolution for the sensitivity of the magnetometry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Keyu Xia , Nan Zhao , Jason Twamley